The Navy today launched an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) from an aircraft carrier at sea, the system's first at-sea catapult launch. The aircraft flew from USS George H. W.

When both Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert attended the first successful carrier landing of the service’s Unmanned Combat Air System ...

Methinks the U.S. Navy has contracted some weird allergy to fleet experimentation. Why else would service potentates retire a promising experimental aircraft like the X-47B unmanned combat air system ...

Northrop Grumman yesterday "unveiled" the first of two X-47Bs being produced for the US Navy's unmanned combat air system-demonstration (UCAS-D) programme. The ceremonial event marked the completion ...

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator successfully completed its inaugural land-based catapult launch here, marking the start of a new era for naval aviation. ...

In recent months, Pax River personnel may have noticed a new, uniquely shaped tailless aircraft on the runway, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D). “This summer will be full of ...

SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Air Force has recognized for operational excellence the U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) flight test team that successfully ...

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator successfully completed its inaugural land-based catapult launch here Nov. 29, marking the start of a new era for naval aviation. "Carrier-based ...

PALMDALE, Calif., March 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Navy's second X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) will be able to withstand all of the structural stresses and strains associated with ...

Northrop Grumman has begun installing systems in the first X-47B under the $635 million US Navy unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) contract won in August. The aircraft is scheduled to ...