INTRODUCING

THE

X-47B

Aerospace goliath Northrop Grumman has taken the

wraps off one of the most advanced robot aircraft in

the world, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air

System (UCAS).

The X-47B is intended to operate from the flight deck of US Navy aircraft carriers, carrying out entire missions including air-to-air refueling

without pilot input.

Captain Martin Deppe , of the Navy’s X-47B project said that Northrop will

provide four demonstration aircraft, mainly intended to

prove that unmanned planes can successfully take off from, and land

onto, US carriers.

Northrop Grumman states that the X-47B, now

completed, will enter ground and flight tests in

the autumn of 2009. Carrier trials are scheduled in 2011.

And now, the X-47B

NOT THE END

BUT THE BEGINNING