Here’s some raw footage of the first flight of the Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle demonstrator that happened last Friday. I have to say, it’s pretty cool to see this airplane in flight.
From the monthly archives:
February 2011
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyber Warfare Correspondent Ignore for a moment all the technical issues and consider that recently, there has been a huge amount of discussion (information and disinformation) about what has been called the “Internet Kill Switch” and the debate is heating up again. The recent events in Egypt that we all […]
Unmanned aircraft, and warfare in general, took a serious step forward Friday when the Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle demonstrator took to the skies for the first time. The stealthy jet flew in a circular pattern known as a racetrack with its landing gear down (standard for first flights) for 29 minutes at an […]
In case you didn’t see this earlier, U.S. Aerospace is back. You know, the shady company that was disqualified from bidding in the Air Force’s $35 billion KC-X contest with Antonov-based designs. Now they’re apparently teaming with China’s state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation to bid on the Marines’ VXX presidential helicopter replacement effort. Apparently, they’re going to offer […]
Here’s an explicit example of the Egyptian government using social networking tech to help organize the violent, pro-government counter demonstrations that broke out in Cairo this week; it’s a sample of one of the mass-text messages the Mubarak government apparently ordered U.K.-based cellphone carrier Vodafone and a local cell provider to send to Egyptian citizens. […]
