X-47B - the future of autonomous aerial warfare

[mike_cos]

Northrop Grumman strikes again!...

Video http://rutube.ru/tracks/4063579.html?v=333628553731e27610061339c56b65ab
Video http://www.reuters.com/news/video/story?videoId=187012362&videoChannel=2602

Note that russian video is dated 4.02.2011 reuters video is dated 11.02.2011...

I love this bird!

 

[amlove21]

Cant wait to see this bad boy..... fly ISR? Be operated by a 20 yr old in a hangar near LV and collect wartime pay? Um, make an appearance in a SAWEET movie starring Sean William Scott?

I wonder how much money is spent so far on this bad boy- personally, I would like an inventory of C-130's that fly, I dont know, 50% of the time as opposed to this new "high speed" crap.

 

[Casimir]

military is becoming more and more like the movie stealth, soon we're gonna have a squadron of jessica biels runnin around....not that that would be a bad thing on the eyes

 

[mike_cos]

military is becoming more and more like the movie stealth, soon we're gonna have a squadron of jessica biels runnin around....not that that would be a bad thing on the eyes

LMAO!

 

[Marauder06]

Cant wait to see this bad boy..... fly ISR? Be operated by a 20 yr old in a hangar near LV and collect wartime pay? ...

Looks like they're already planning that in; EO, IR, SAR, and ESM sensors on board. But 6 hours of endurance?? In an ISR role, not impressed.

And I think the Air Force is using rated pilots for their UAVs... I'm sorry I mean RPVs.

 

[pardus]

Aircraft, tanks etc... we'll see a lot of things go unmanned and remote before long.
It makes sense. That said, I don't think we'll be getting rid of people anytime soon.

 

[DA SWO]

Looks like an unmanned A-12.

 

[Robal2pl]

Northrop-Grumman was involved in that program, so maybe there's connection...?

 

[Casimir]

Aircraft, tanks etc... we'll see a lot of things go unmanned and remote before long.
It makes sense. That said, I don't think we'll be getting rid of people anytime soon.

it will be a frightening day when we remove the human equation from warfare

 

[mike_cos]

 

[talonlm]

I would like an inventory of C-130's that fly, I dont know, 50% of the time as opposed to this new "high speed" crap.

Hah! Me, too! Forty five year old airplanes are cantankerous beasts.