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The Northrop Grumman X-47B is a demonstration unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) designed for aircraft carrier-based operations.Developed by the American defense technology company Northrop Grumman, the X-47 project began as part of DARPA's J-UCAS program, and subsequently became part of the United States Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) program.
As a naval vessel, a drone carrier is capable of launching and picking up combat drones without the need for large and expensive aircraft carriers. In March 2013, DARPA began efforts to develop a fleet of small naval vessels capable of launching and retrieving combat drones without the need for large and expensive aircraft carriers. [1]
MQ-25 T1 Stingray test aircraft refuels F-35C, 2021. In late April 2019, the first MQ-25 test aircraft (T-1 or "Tail 1") was taken by road from Boeing's technical plant at St. Louis's Lambert International Airport across the Mississippi River to MidAmerica St. Louis Airport, which is conjoined to Scott Air Force Base. [18]
First, the new drone carrier is much smaller than the aircraft carriers that launch piloted airplanes -- "approximately one third the length and half the width of a U.S. Navy or Chinese Navy (PLAN ...
The remotely operated aircraft has a 55ft (17m) wingspan and weighs 1.5 tonnes Royal Navy launches its largest ever drone from aircraft carrier to unlock ‘highly-potent striking’ force Skip to ...
The RQ-170 Sentinel was developed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works as a stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Journalists have noted design similarities between the RQ-170 and previous stealth and UAV programs such as the Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar and Polecat.
A XQ-58 Valkyrie deploys an Altius-600 unmanned aircraft system. The XQ-58 Valkyrie fell within the USAF Research Laboratory's Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Technology (LCAAT) portfolio, whose objectives included designing and building unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) faster, by developing better design tools and maturing and using commercial manufacturing processes to reduce production ...
Koh also thinks the "mothership" is more likely a drone carrier, at about 10,000 to 20,000 tons, instead of a full-size aircraft carrier at 85,000 tons. China has three aircraft carriers, each ...