{"id":8546,"date":"2010-12-21T00:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T05:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8546"},"modified":"2010-12-20T02:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T07:40:39","slug":"x-47b-ucav-preparing-for-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/x-47b-ucav-preparing-for-first-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"X-47B UCAV Preparing for First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Military Times<\/em> reports the X-47B, designed to demonstrate the capabilities of an unmanned strike aircraft, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2010\/12\/navy-ucas-first-flight-121610\/\">preparing to conduct its first flight<\/a>. The test aircraft has been conducting taxi tests at Edwards AFB, CA.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is currently two years behind schedule,\u00a0if it is successful the\u00a0experimental aircraft\u00a0would ultimately\u00a0represent the first time an armed UAV operated off a naval carrier.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the X-47B, or its progeny, are intended to be entirely autonomous or remotely piloted to some degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Times reports the X-47B, designed to demonstrate the capabilities of an unmanned strike aircraft, is preparing to conduct its first flight. The test aircraft has been conducting taxi tests at Edwards AFB, CA. Though it is currently two years behind schedule,\u00a0if it is successful the\u00a0experimental aircraft\u00a0would ultimately\u00a0represent the first time an armed UAV operated off a naval carrier. [&#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":[13,36,53,845],"class_list":["post-8546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-navy","tag-uav","tag-ucav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546","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=8546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}