Refueling Gear Makes Navy’s Next Drone Even Deadlier -- The Danger Room
The Navy’s X-47B killer drone is about to get a lot more lethal. Nine months after the 38-foot-long, bat-shaped flying robot took off from Edwards Air Force Base in California for its very first flight, the Navy has announced it will add an aerial refueling capability to at least one of the two X-47 prototypes sometime in 2014.
The decision to add refueling software and equipment was published on the federal government’s business opportunity website and first reported by InsideDefense. (Alas, the piece is behind a firewall.)
How big a deal is this? In a word, very.
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X-47B robo-stealth plane attains 1st cruise flight -- CNET
UFO-Like Drone Makes First Cruise-Mode Flight -- NPR
Navy’s Distinctly UFO-Like X-47B War Drone Makes First Flight in Cruise Mode -- Popular Science
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