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The First U.S. Navy Drone


The first in its history, the drone strike was the Navy United States.
First flew unmanned X-47B aircraft, code-named Salty Dog 501 14 May 2013 from the deck of an aircraft carrier «George HW Bush».


X-47B drone production Northrop Grumman Corporation has dimensions similar to a conventional fighter, equipped with a turbofan engine Pratt & Whitney F100-220, has a range of about 4,000 miles, a cruising speed of Mach 0.45 and can go up to a height of 12 km. Armed with two bombs weighing a JDAM guidance system to 905 kg each. Let me remind you that the first flight of its X-47B made two years ago, rising into the air from Edwards Air Force Base.


May 14 X-47B was launched by one of the two full-time catapult aircraft carrier, which was on maneuvers in the Atlantic. During a test flight of the UAV seven times imitated the landing and take-off, touching the chassis of the deck.










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