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| Droned At Sea; Navy Launches First Unmanned Jet From Aircraft Carrier |
| 2013-05-16 |
| Seen as a potential answer to the threat of medium-range anti-ship missiles developed by China and Iran; with a range of 2000 nautical miles the X-47B is "strategically very important." |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #2 What is kind of cool is that the computer animation shows a drone in VA-165 (Boomer) colors. Spent 9 years with the Grumman Ironworks All Weather Refueling Squadron......(memories) |
| Posted by: USN,Ret, 2013-05-16 22:31 |
| #1 I liked how WORLD MIL FORUM labeled it -"BALLISTIC MISSLE DRONE INTERCEPTOR". Apparen the PLA is increasingly worried the US will dev a reliable ABL Sys for it one day. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-05-16 03:04 |