The U.S. Navy has quietly added new sea trials to its X-47B demonstration, but an actual hook-up and passing of gas through an automated aerial refueling (AAR) system remains an elusive goal. Navy ...

The Northrop Grumman X-47B was a successful step in the US Navy’s quest to build the first carrier-capable unmanned aerial vehicle. After the promising Pegasus project of the early 2000s, the service ...

Navy technicians will perform arrested landings and catapult launches of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland this year in preparation for ...

In 2014, the X-47B unmanned combat air vehicle made aviation history with its successful launch and recovery from a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. These groundbreaking trials marked a major leap toward ...

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.

Northrop Grumman's X-47B unmanned combat aircraft system demonstrator was hoisted aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Truman at NAS Norfolk, Va., on Nov. 26 ,to begin several weeks of deck ...