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 ...

On the cover of Aviation Week’s May 11-14, 2015, edition, the U.S. Navy's Northrop Grumman X-47B uncrewed combat aircraft ...

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 ...

Five years in the US Army as a translator (German and Polish). We now know that the pilotless X-47B aircraft has its sea legs. The prototype X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System(PDF) this week ...

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 ...

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.

On Tuesday morning, the X-47B experimental drone was launched from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush as it floated off the Virginia coast. The test flight was seen as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This morning at 11:18 a.m. eastern time, the X-47B became the first unmanned aircraft to ever complete a catapult launch from a carrier deck, an achievement just as momentous as the first launch ...