In 2013, Northrop Grumman's X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle became the first "drone" fighter jet to both launch from and land on an aircraft carrier deck. Over the ensuing two years, X-47B ...

Per Northrop Grumman, the X-47B was created under a 2007 contract with the U.S. Navy. It was a time when unmanned craft were beginning to show burgeoning potential, and the Navy was looking to ...

The six-year contract calls for the development of two X-47B fighter-sized aircraft. The program will demonstrate the first-ever carrier launches and recoveries by an autonomous, unmanned aircraft ...

Nov. 29, 2012: In preparation for the first catapult launch of the U.S. Navy's X-47B unmanned aircraft, a flight deck director - aka "yellow shirt" - and a deck operator using Northrop Grumman's ...

Naval aviation history was made today, as an autonomous unmanned aircraft took off from a US Navy nuclear aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia. The X-47B Unmanned ...

The X-47B on the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman in December 2012. Northrop Grumman We now know that the pilotless X-47B aircraft has its sea legs.

Northrop Grumman has received an additional $63 million in funding from the US Navy to carry out "post-demonstration" development of its X-47B carrier-based unmanned air vehicle.

Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $1-billion contract to develop an unmanned combat aircraft that could take off and land on an aircraft carrier, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

This marks the first time in history that an unmanned aircraft has refueled in-flight, according to the X-47B development team.

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator put another page in the history books on Wednesday with its first unmanned arrested-wire carrier landing. The drone flew 35 minutes from ...