{"id":20376,"date":"2012-12-06T01:10:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20376"},"modified":"2012-12-06T00:48:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T03:48:58","slug":"x-47b-deploys-to-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/06\/x-47b-deploys-to-aircraft-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"X-47B Deploys to Aircraft Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The X-47, an experimental unmanned &#8220;combat air system,&#8221; has been hoisted onto the USS <em>Truman <\/em>for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=70808\">carrier deck handling tests<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Presumably, these tests do not yet include carrier launches or landings (though a catapult launch on a land-based site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2012\/11\/30\/x-47b-catapult-launch-makes-naval-aviation-history.html\">has already occurred<\/a>, complete with <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HTiRY2ieDN0\">PR video<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Current generation unmanned vehicles essentially began their lives as surveillance assets and were modified to carry weapons.\u00a0 The progeny of the X-47 will be combat attack vehicles by design, and may even have autonomous capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Observers will be forgiven if their first thought is &#8220;Skynet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The X-47, an experimental unmanned &#8220;combat air system,&#8221; has been hoisted onto the USS Truman for &#8220;carrier deck handling tests.&#8221;\u00a0 Presumably, these tests do not yet include carrier launches or landings (though a catapult launch on a land-based site has already occurred, complete with PR video). Current generation unmanned vehicles essentially began their lives as surveillance assets and were modified [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3718,5285,2,1264,53,1434],"class_list":["post-20376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft-carrier","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-truman","tag-uav","tag-x-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}