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15 May 2013 5:26 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from "Navy¡¯s Historic Drone Launch From an Aircraft..." to "Navy's Historic Drone Launch From an Aircraft..."
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Tango01  | 15 May 2013 11:18 a.m. PST |
… Carrier Has an Asterisk. "ABOARD THE U.S.S. GEORGE H.W. BUSHAt 11:19 a.m. today, for the first time in history, a plane without a pilot in it executed one of the most complex missions in aviation: launching off an aircraft carrier at sea. Only the Navy can't yet land that drone aboard the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, an even harder but necessary maneuver if large drones are really going to operate off carriers. On a crisp, bright and nearly cloudless day, about 100 miles off the Virginia coast, the crew of the Bush and the team behind the highly autonomous X-47B loaded up the deck¡¯s second catapult with the drone and shot it off into the sky above the eastern Atlantic. The drone ¡ª which has its own callsign, ¡°Salty Dog 502¡å ¡ª turned downwind and passed over the ship twice, first from 1000 feet overhead and then from 60 feet overhead, before flying back to dry land in Maryland. The launch went exactly as the Navy hoped.…"
Full article here (with youtube).
link Vive Asterix! Amicalement
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 15 May 2013 12:38 p.m. PST |
I like the X-47B. It's like a cute miniature B-2. |
| Lion in the Stars | 15 May 2013 12:41 p.m. PST |
I can't wait to see the X47 fully carrier qualified, making traps in nasty sea states at night. Then it's time to cue the Terminator theme. |
 aegiscg47 | 15 May 2013 12:45 p.m. PST |
Yup, carrier air wings consisting of two squadrons of X-47s, two to three of F-18s/F-35s, and some EA-18G Growlers will be a nasty combination for any enemy. My guess is that the X-47s will take over the Iron Hand role, freeing hp the manned aircraft to conduct air superiority and the main strikes. |
| MajorB | 15 May 2013 1:47 p.m. PST |
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| Tankrider | 15 May 2013 4:23 p.m. PST |
Maverick's Goose is cooked. |
| ancientsgamer | 16 May 2013 7:21 a.m. PST |
The classic line in all this was a radio news story about this. "For the first time ever, the U.S. Navy launched a fighter sized object from the deck of an aircraft carrier." I couldn't stop laughing for ten minutes. I suppose all of the airplanes launched from aircraft carriers in the past and present don't qualify as "fighter sized"?! LOL Man, who writes this stuff? I shudder to think what the so-called media passes off as new reporting! |
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