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Friday, August 09, 2013

X-47B Gets Two More Years of Tests to Prep Navy for Robot Warplanes

X-47B UCASLast month, Northrop Grumman's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air thingy (Vehicle or System, take your pick) did a mostly excellent job at autonomously taking off from, and more importantly landing on, an aircraft carrier.

Once everything was shown to work, the U.S. Navy was like, "awesome job, now never fly those things again," and the two X-47Bs were slated for permanent museum display.

Fortunately for fans of big, expensive, scary-looking flying robots, the Navy has just changed its mind.

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