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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Second US Navy robot stealth bomber takes flight

X-47BA second X-47B unmanned stealth attack plane is now flying, and the US Navy expects the robot aircraft to demonstrate operations from an aircraft carrier on schedule in 2013.

Northrop Grumman, delivering the X-47B demonstrators for the USN, has just announced the successful first flight of the second aircraft, rather unoriginally dubbed "Air Vehicle 2".

According to the defence-aerospace behemoth the flight took place last week above Rogers Dry Lake adjacent to Edwards airforce base in California.

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