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Friday, March 26, 2010

Navy wants carrier-based drone by 2018

X-47B UCASThe Navy has begun looking into options for fielding a stealthy drone capable of locating and attacking targets alongside manned jets before the end of the decade.

The Navy wants information on carrier-based, “low-observable, Unmanned Air Systems concepts optimized for irregular and hybrid warfare scenarios capable of integrating with manned platforms as part of the carrier air wing by the end of 2018 to support limited operations in contested scenarios,” reads a request for information released by the Navy on March 19.

The aircraft, dubbed Unmanned Carrier-launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike, must be able to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as strike operations, according to the document.

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