The Senate Appropriations Committee believes the Navy should not move quickly to retire two prototype unmanned aircraft that recently made history by demonstrating their ability to land and take-off on aircraft carriers. In approving its fiscal 2014 defense appropriations bill, the committee said the Navy should instead evaluate other options for using the two X-47Bs to better prepare for the follow-on program designed to provide the Navy with an operational air wing of carrier-based unmanned aircraft. The X-47B lifting off…
