Bad Guys Beware—The Navy’s Killer Drone Is About to Get a Lot More Dangerous -- David Axe, War Is Boring
Navy emphasizing aerial refueling and stealth in new robot design
The U.S. Navy has tweaked the specifications of its new robotic warplane, newly stressing its ability evade enemy radars and refuel in mid-air. The result will be a much deadlier killer drone—and one that over time, with upgrades, could grow even more dangerous to America’s enemies.
It almost didn’t work out this way. Way back in 2007, the Navy paid drone-maker Northrop Grumman a billion dollars to build a pair of “demonstrator” robots for tests about the fleet’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
The idea was to gather the data necessary to build the world’s first front-line, jet-powered, armed drone—one with the added ability to take off from and land aboard the flattops’ thousand-foot steel decks.
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My Comment: The planners for this drone are looking at Iran and China.
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