U.S. Navy Drone Successfully Makes It's First Landing On A US Navy Aircraft Carrier

Unmanned Jet Lands Aboard U.S. Navy Carrier In Historic First -- Reuters

* Experimental X-47B drone offers glimpse of future
* Focus shifts to designing an operational Navy drone
* Program to focus on surveillance, affordability

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH, July 10 (Reuters) - An unmanned U.S. jet carried out a maneuver on Wednesday long considered the most challenging in naval aviation - landing aboard an aircraft carrier - in a milestone that lifted expectations about basing drones with reconnaissance and strike capabilities on ships.

A Northrop Grumman X-47B aircraft nicknamed "Salty Dog 502" slipped out of a cloudy sky off the Virginia coast after a flight from Patuxent River Naval Air Station and dropped its tailhook to snag an arresting cable on the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush sailing in the Atlantic Ocean.

"It's not often that you get a chance to see the future, but that's what we got to do today," said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who witnessed the landing and likened it to the first manned aircraft landing on a carrier a century ago.

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