{"id":31419,"date":"2015-04-29T00:10:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31419"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:26:03","slug":"x-47b-drone-refuels-autonomously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/x-47b-drone-refuels-autonomously\/","title":{"rendered":"X-47B Drone Refuels Autonomously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So easy, even a robot can do it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/ucavaar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4240\" height=\"2830\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The US Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=86710\">reported<\/a> that its X-47B &#8212; a demonstrator for unmanned combat air vehicle technology &#8212; successfully completed autonomous refueling.<\/p>\n<p>Aerial Refueling (Air-to-Air Refueling) (AAR) is a notoriously <!--more-->challenging task even for skilled pilots. Based on this technology, it will be interesting to see if the military chooses to automate the task for <em>manned<\/em> aircraft in the future.\u00a0 Of course, the Secretary of the Navy said the F-35C would likely be its <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/navy-secretary-f-35-to-be-last-manned-fighter\/\">last manned fighter aircraft<\/a>&#8230;ever, so that question may be moot.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the AAR occurred not with a USAF refueling tanker, but with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/22\/politics\/navy-aircraft-makes-history\/index.html\">civilian Omega 707<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/ucavaar2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4240\" height=\"2830\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So easy, even a robot can do it: The US Navy reported that its X-47B &#8212; a demonstrator for unmanned combat air vehicle technology &#8212; successfully completed autonomous refueling. Aerial Refueling (Air-to-Air Refueling) (AAR) is a notoriously<\/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":[5285,2,36,1434],"class_list":["post-31419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-x-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419","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=31419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}