The next step for X-47B

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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.

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