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Navy/USMC

X-47B Makes First Arresting Gear Landing

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

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X-47B Makes First Arresting Gear Landing

The Navy’s unmanned X-47B designed to operate off aircraft carriers successfully conducted its first landing with arresting gear, the Navy and contractor Northrop Grumman [NOC] said yesterday. The test took place Saturday at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. using shore-based arresting gear in what was key step for the Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) program. The X-47B took its first steam catapult-launched flight late last year. The Navy hopes to fly an X-47B off an aircraft carrier later…

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