Northrop Grumman has announced that its stealth UAV, the X47-B, will be ready for initial test flights later on in 2009. Designed under a joint programme with the United States Navy, the X47-B closely ...

ARC-210 radios from Cedar Rapids-based Rockwell Collins provided voice communications to support the first flight of the United States Navy/Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Friday, ...

WASHINGTON — One of the biggest questions facing the future of US Navy carrier-based aviation is what will be the primary mission of its new unmanned jet. Some believe the aircraft — to be produced by ...

A X47-B navy drone grabs the wire as it lands aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush off the Coast of Virginia Wednesday. It is the first landing by a drone on a Navy carrier. The ...

Ethical debates about their use aside, unmanned military drones are getting more and more impressive. And the US Navy's X-47B unmanned combat air system has claim to being the coolest of them all.