Video: UFO or X-47B Riding on a Flatbed? -- Defense Tech
Happy Monday everyone. Below you’ll find an interesting video to give you material to show your crazy uncle during the holidays.
Despite the title, this video doesn’t show a UAV going cross country on a flatbed truck. It shows what looks like one of Northrop Grumman’s X-47B drones being shipped to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland from California, a Northrop spokesman just confirmed to DT. Remember, the two X-47Bs are being sent to Pax River where they’ll engineers will practice aircraft carrier take-offs and landings on a strip of runway painted to resemble a carrier’s flight deck.
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