{"id":193348,"date":"2008-12-21T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/21\/picture-pr0n-x-47b-demonstrator-rolls-out\/"},"modified":"2008-12-21T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T13:46:00","slug":"picture-pr0n-x-47b-demonstrator-rolls-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/21\/picture-pr0n-x-47b-demonstrator-rolls-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Pr0n: X-47B  Demonstrator Rolls Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Northrop-Grumman has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A744e0176-e492-4514-b57e-3db280045051\">rolled out its first X-47B unmanned combat air system (UCAS) demonstrator<\/a> in a rather splashy debut.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a project that was on the death watch list just 6 months ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img234.imageshack.us\/img234\/444\/f3283b1a6f2f46fe8392578ny3.jpg\" \/><br \/>It&#8217;s actually rather large, with a, &#8221; 62.1 ft, compared to 44.7 ft. for an F\/A-18&#8243; (the E\/F models), and so looks to be close to the size of the canceled A-12 attack aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img68.imageshack.us\/img68\/6665\/8589953101524b80a729314py6.jpg\" \/><br \/>Here we can see the standard robust naval landing gear.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img67.imageshack.us\/img67\/9568\/21b4d1f4b8fa4c1f85ca847al6.jpg\" \/><br \/>Here is a closeup of the inlet, which the N-G folks were fine with letting people take, which surprises me, because it&#8217;s kind of the &#8220;secret sauce&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a part of me that is surprised that the US Navy is considering a tailless <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">anything<\/span> after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F-7_Cutlass\">debacle that was the F7U Cutlass<\/a> (aka &#8220;Gutless&#8221; and &#8220;Ensign Eliminator&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>NG press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irconnect.com\/noc\/press\/pages\/news_releases.html?d=156493\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Northrop-Grumman has rolled out its first X-47B unmanned combat air system (UCAS) demonstrator in a rather splashy debut. Not bad for a project that was on the death watch list just 6 months ago. It&#8217;s actually rather large, with a, &#8221; 62.1 ft, compared to 44.7 ft. for an F\/A-18&#8243; (the E\/F models), and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1161,1152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-naval","category-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}