Sailors taxied an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator aircraft for the first time aboard a carrier on Sunday.

Such is the case with the U.S. Navy’s X-47B which just became the first unmanned aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. Landing a drone on an aircraft carrier was not a cheap or easy task.

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 ...

The Northrop Grumman X-47B marked a major milestone in the US Navy’s push for carrier-based unmanned combat. Through years of testing, it proved both the feasibility and reliability of stealth strike ...

The X-47B is a tailless, autonomous aircraft designed with unique features for an unmanned aircraft, such as carrier suitable landing gear and structure.

X-47B has completed first contact with an aerial refueling hose. On Apr. 16, “Salty Dog 502”, one of the two Unmanned Carrier Air Vehicle demonstrator (UCAS-D) aircraft of the X-47B program ...

The experimental, unmanned X-47B continues to get its sea legs. The US Navy over the weekend resumed at-sea testing of the X-47B, also known as the Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D ...

The Navy's robotic fighter just got one step closer to earning its wings. The X-47B, an unmanned stealth attack jet, has completed the first major phase of flight testing on its way to become the ...