Robotics Robot Fighter Jet X-47B Autonomously Lands on Aircraft Carrier The Navy’s newest fighter is a high-tech batwing the size of an F/A 18 Super Hornet. The stealthy X-47B can carry 4,500 pounds ...

The X-47B comes in for an arrested landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) on November 9, 2013. US Navy photo by Mass Comm. Spec. Seaman Anthony N. Hilkowski ...

Having become the first unmanned aircraft to takeoff and land on a modern aircraft carrier last year, the team will now look to perfect flight deck operations and integrate the unmanned X-47B with ...

The X-47B is designed to fly farther and stay in the air longer than existing aircraft because it does not depend on a human pilot’s endurance.

We now know that the pilotless X-47B aircraft has its sea legs. The prototype X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (PDF) this week completed its first at-sea tests as it gets ready to take off from ...

The Northrop Grumman-built X-47B has successfully completed the first major phase of flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The X-47B is also the first tail-less aircraft to operate from a carrier deck, which also makes it the first jet, manned or unmanned, with a low observable “stealth” profile to operate from a ...