{"id":193474,"date":"2008-12-13T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/x-47-uav-program-expanded\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T12:43:00","slug":"x-47-uav-program-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/13\/x-47-uav-program-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"X-47 UAV Program Expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img95.imageshack.us\/img95\/8950\/ucasdqs5.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\"; width=\"400\" \/>A few months back, it looked like that the Navy\/Northrop-Grumman X-47 CUCAS-D (unmanned combat air system demonstration) was on the chopping block.<\/p>\n<p>This is perhaps the most ambitious UAV currently in development, given that among other things, it&#8217;s supposed to make an arrested landing on a carrier deck.<\/p>\n<p>It now appears that in addition to demonstrating combat capabilities and carrier ops, the program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2008\/12\/11\/320019\/ucas-d-escapes-budget-cut-threat-with-expanded-role.html\">has been expanded to include autonomous air-to-air refueling<\/a>, which will greatly improve the strike capability of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Autonomous refueling has been kind of a holy grail in the UAV community, and is really essential for any system that actually sees operational use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, it looked like that the Navy\/Northrop-Grumman X-47 CUCAS-D (unmanned combat air system demonstration) was on the chopping block. This is perhaps the most ambitious UAV currently in development, given that among other things, it&#8217;s supposed to make an arrested landing on a carrier deck. It now appears that in addition to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161,1025,1152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval","category-technology","category-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193474"}],"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=193474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}