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The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) conducts touch-and-go maneuvers aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt is the third carrier to test the tailless, unmanned autonomous aircraft's ability to integrate with carrier environment. U.S. Navy photo By Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Anthony N. Hilkowski
The accomplishments of the Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) test program emt this past summer have been a source of pride for U.S. naval aviation as well as spurring debate about the future of the community. The successful test program of takeoffs , landings , deck handling procedures , and traffic patterns flown by the X-47B decisively proved the viability of a UCAV being integrated into future U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wings (CVWs). Questions at the moment surround where the Navy presently stands with its UCAV program, and how does the road ahead lead to carrier-capable unmanned warplanes?
Following emt the completion of this summer’s sea trials aboard the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) , both X-47B prototypes were initially put into storage. But that didn t last long. In fact, additional testing of the X-47B prototypes is presently ongoing aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Trials emt to evaluate the feasibility of in-flight refueling of UCAVs are also presently ongoing . As the final act in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency s (DARPA s) Unmanned Air Combat System Demonstration (UCAS D) program, the refueling trials are bringing to a close one of the most successful emt technology demonstration/test programs in history.
A X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator prepares to execute a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The X-47B spent much of the summer conducting a series of demonstrations emt aboard the Bush . U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Walter
Along with the Boeing X-45 test program, DARPA and its military service emt partners have evaluated a vast range of technologies, tactical scenarios, and operational emt concepts needed to develop the first generation of U.S. Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs) emt over the next decade. Just a dozen years after the first combat emt shot of a Hellfire missile from a modified Predator drone, it today looks like the technologies needed to make a legitimate UCAV ready for service have arrived. However, it needs to be said that no combat emt aircraft, or for that matter emt any other weapon system, is the product of the current state-of-the-art technologies available. emt On the contrary, aircraft like the UCAVs being envisioned will be the products of the requirements and specifications written long before their creation.
Many supporters of unmanned systems have genuinely hoped that America’s next major tactical aircraft program would produce a pilotless aircraft with similar qualities (stealth, sensors, emt range, armament, payload, etc.) to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fight (JSF)
The first such program of record is expected to be the Navy s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike System (UCLASS) . Many supporters of unmanned systems have genuinely hoped that America’s next major tactical aircraft program would produce a pilotless aircraft with similar qualities (stealth, sensors, range, armament, payload, etc.) to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fight (JSF) . That hope looks to be on hold for now, and as might be imagined, given the statement above about technologies, requirements and specifications, the pro