In 2014, the X-47B unmanned combat air vehicle made aviation history with its successful launch and recovery from a U.S. Navy ...

The Northrop Grumman-built X-47B has passed the latest checkpoint on its flight path towards becoming the first carrier-based, tailless, fighter-sized, unmanned aircraft in the U.S. Navy’s ...

Five things you need to know about the X-47B, the U.S. military's first unmanned, autonomous combat jet. By Clay Dillow Published Jul 5, 2013 9:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

These shore-based tests will be followed by the X-47B's return to an aircraft carrier in August, this time the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Having become the first unmanned aircraft to takeoff and land ...

It ends with a final “salute” from the pilot to indicate that the aircraft is ready to be catapulted off the deck. But when the X-47B, the US Navy’s newest prototype combat aircraft ...

Don't try this with your backyard drone. The X-47B has made its first arrested landing on an aircraft carrier, and the world of unmanned aircraft may never be the same. Jon Skillings is an ...

The Navy's X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle demonstrator has added yet another huge feat to its long list of incredible accomplishments, which includes operating from an aircraft carrier.

The landing of the X-47B experimental aircraft means the Navy can move forward with its plans to develop another unmanned aircraft that will join the fleet alongside traditional airplanes to ...

For the first time ever, a fighter jet-sized drone piloted entirely by computer landed on a modern aircraft carrier. The successful touch down paves the way for unmanned aircraft to operate ...

Using the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator, the Navy's UCAS Carrier Demonstration program plans to catapult the aircraft from a ship base, making history, next year.

On dry land, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy show that they can use a handheld controller to maneuver the drone as if around the tight quarters of an aircraft carrier. Jon Skillings is an ...

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77). US Navy Photo Less than a week ...