In a video released today by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator completes its first shore-based arrested landing on May 4 at Naval …
As 2012 drew to a close, the numbers of the U.S. Navy’s largest warships – the aircraft carrier – had dropped temporarily to 10.
As the fleet waited for the …
Nothing in 2012 consumed defense planners in the United States and abroad like America’s looming budget crisis. Programmed cuts to the world’s largest defense budget and the prospect of further …
In the nation’s capital and around the United States, it’s a safe bet that debate soon will be heating up about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – most people call them …
Over 30 years ago while working at Rockwell International’s Space Division in Downey, Calif., I wrote a briefing book for members of Congress about space program benefits. The book’s section …
To anyone at all passionate about airships, New Jersey’s Lakehurst Naval Air Station is Jerusalem. Birthplace and home to the Navy’s lighter-that-air fleet from 1921 to 1962, Lakehurst is where …
December’s first at-sea test of the Navy’s Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS-D) was historic, but in a way, it was also a non-event. The Northrop-Grumman X-47B hoisted aboard the USS …
Any document with a 23-page table of contents is going to be a challenge, not just to the everyday citizen but to someone who spends time analyzing.
Exactly such a …
Logistics convoys have been high priority – and highly vulnerable – targets for insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), mines, and RPG (rocket-propelled …
A Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System-Demonstrator (UCAS-D) is hoisted aboard USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75), marking a milestone in the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and …
The tornado that devastated Moore, Okla., yesterday has prompted the deployment of 250 members of …
Special operators as well as industry leaders from around the globe received their copies of …
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is rotting in a grave in Virginia, and state residents aren’t happy about …
