Remember this video from a couple of months ago? It announced that the new UAV (or, more accurately, the Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS)) was launched from an aircraft carrier.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZUJdpAxRWk[/youtube]Then a couple of weeks ago, we learned that it successfully conducted touch-and-goes.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d0HmzQeUbE[/youtube]And on July 10, 2013, it completed the hat trick with an arrested landing on board USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH (CVN 77).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPaH8CCtRVU[/youtube]In case you had any doubt, the future is definitely now.