Meet the X-47B: America's $1.5 Billion Stealth Drone
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Published 2023-04-21
Six years since the X-47B began development, Northrop Grumman finally received a contract to build two X-47Bs; in that time, military drones had become much more prominent as a result of the success of the MQ-1 Predator, and MQ-9 Reapers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Though development costs were quite significant, reaching nearly $1.5 billion by 2015, the program meshed well with evolving Navy requirements.
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All Comments (21)
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Saw a prototype of it at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans in 2011 on the set of Green Lantern.
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I've watched this 5 times already and it gets better each time! 🔥
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Who's here in 2024 and it's being used in service now ?
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Interesting Video, Thank You Sam & The Crew of U.S. Military News. 👍 🇺🇸
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Extending fleet range does seem more of a priority than the cool factor. It is pretty cool, though.
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This is really advanced technology! AMAZING
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Really cool to see it operate and do stuff on its own. Really curies to know how it (im asuming it was doing it on its own) see and act acordingly, forward, stop etc.
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We are getting into Ace Combat territory now!
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Awesome combination of drone and manned fighters in areal combat.
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I wanna see the Stingray win a large contract. That drone has more caps than any other and doesn't cost as much.
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Just to think our cell phones have more computing power than all of earth until the 1970s
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Nice video. 👍🏽 1st of many I'm sure.
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Very good strong defence drones and stealthy flights 🎉🎉😊😊
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Looks alot like the triangle craft people have been seeing in the sky for the last decade or so
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There's a number of stealth type characteristic drones that the US is considering though; the Valkyrie, the Ghost bat are two that I know of.
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Very impressive and I have no doubt they got a ton of important data from the trials. I can't wait to see what the next unmanned fighter drone will look like. The ones that will act as a wingman to manned fighters in the Navy's future F/A-XX program. This is going to be a crazy decade of insane next Gen upgrades for the US military. Some of the programs are getting done fast, and innovation is being pushed by the private sector collaboration. China showed it's cards too early and have now certainly forced the US military to wake up.
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It’s a damn shame, considering the potential of the aircraft, all for an aircraft that is less capable than what was created. I feel bad for the engineering teams that spent more than a decade on this and achieved so much, with so much investment in the program just to park it. This was going to be yet again another huge success for Northrop Grumman like the b2 and the a10.
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I love it
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this drone is something high-class
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Unmanned gas station - priceless. This is just proof of concept and software development. Carriers of the future are going to be drone platforms.
