The record-shattering mission of the U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane is finally over. After circling Earth for an unprecedented 718 days, the X-37B touched down Sunday (May 7) at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Keep reading https://goo.gl/CgfEvL | Space.com

Northrop X-47A First flight (2003). The J-UCAS program was being conducted in multiple overlapping spirals of increasing capability toward the objective system. Northrop Grumman built the X-47A air vehicle, and its associated mission control, support and simulation systems, to demonstrate the technical feasibility of J-UCAS concept. The larger X-47B air vehicle will more closely represent the operational system as currently envisioned and conduct demonstrations for both the Navy and the Air Forc

An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) taxies and launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is the first aircraft carrier to successfully catapult launch an unmanned aircraft from its flight deck. #skynet #x47b #drone #unmanned #navy #middleeast #israel #lebanon #usa #usaf #russia #hezbollah #beirut #iran | iceman_fox1