RT @EliClifton: Good time to revisit piece I wrote w/ @_michaelbrooks about what carrier launched drones mean for drone strike policy http:…
— _michaelbrooks 2 days 2 hours ago.
RT @USNavy: #USNavy launches 1st unmanned aircraft from an aircraft carrier. Watch #X47B take flight & land. t.co/cvv2GT9a63
— gims125 2 days 14 hours ago.
15 May 1943 - First flight Nakajima C6N Saiun (Coloured Cloud) Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft
— FASTmuseum 2 days 22 hours ago.
RT @USNavy: #USNavy launches 1st unmanned aircraft from an aircraft carrier. Watch #X47B take flight & land. t.co/cvv2GT9a63
— claudioalpalice 3 days 8 hours ago.
Source: SCMP
It was January 16, 1945, a day that saw the heaviest American bombing of Japanese targets in Hong Kong. Between 9am and 5pm, 154 tonnes of bombs were dropped, and hundreds of thousands of machine gun rounds were ...
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Source: Arkansas Online
A Navy X-47B drone is launched off the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush off the coast of Virginia, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The plane isn't intended for operational use, but it will be us ...
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Source: The Huffington Post
catapult launch an unmanned aircraft from its flight An image provided by the US navy shows sailors moving an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) at dawn aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post
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Source: The Register
The US Navy has successfully completed the first carrier launch of its unmanned X47B drone, a programmable stealth strike aircraft with a range of 2,100 miles and the skills to allow automatic in-flight refueling, which could giv ...
Full article at: The Register
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Source: MSNBC
Specialist 2nd Class Tony D. Curtis / US Navy via AP An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator sits on an aircraft elevator on the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on May 6. Timothy Walter / US Navy via ...
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Source: Gizmag
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 Combat Air Sys ...
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More like this 4 days ago, 1:47pm CDT
Source: The Seattle Times
The U.S. Navy says it has successfully launched an unmanned aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Navy says in a news release that the launch was completed Tuesday morning aboard the USS George H.W. Bush in the Atlantic Ocean. The X-4 ...
Full article at: The Seattle Times
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