Ty’s Photography Showcase Site
Tag Archives: X-47B
HUGE PLUG: “RISE OF THE DRONES” TO AIR WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23rd ON NOVA!
I spent dozens of hours consulting with the producers of this documentary, literally taking them through almost every aspect of drone warfare and unmanned combat aircraft, including their evolution, ways of operation, specific differences in capabilities amongst the types in … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in News, Opinon, video
3 Comments
NEED AN INTERIM UAV SOLUTION FOR AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS? TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THE MOTHBALLED S-3 VIKING…
There has been some buzz in the defense community that the US Navy should field an “interim” unmanned aircraft to deploy off of its flattops between the time that the X-47B … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Opinon
3 Comments
X-47B GOES TO SEA
Care to think twice about continuing with this F-35 charade? And this is the technology we are allowed to see today, not what really exists in the black world. More on this very soon, and yes I did read Aviationweek’s recent … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in News, Photo, video
2 Comments
X-47B LANDS ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER FOR THE FIRST TIME! -UMM SORT OF…
…2013 is just around the bend folks. If this baby is a success the Navy may get serious about reevaluating its F-35C plans. Super Hornets in “Block III” configuration and a fleet of advanced semi-autonomous UCAVs with over double the … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in News, Opinon, The F-35 Saga, video
1 Comment
UNMANNED GAME CHANGER: AUTONOMOUS AERIAL REFUELING IS A REALITY
The emerging capability to refuel drones in flight will make even more of an impact than the ability to do so with manned platforms, a practice that began at the dawn of the jet age some 60+ years ago. Nowhere … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in News, Opinon
Comment Now
AMERICAN WARFARE’S NEW NORMAL: DRONE WAR IN YEMEN HEATS UP AS DRONE WAR IN PAKISTAN COOLS DOWN
Posted below are two separate and very worthwhile articles about the continued use of drone strikes in foreign lands to decapitate, cripple, or simply destroy terrorist and insurgent networks. Peter Bergen writes about how the drone war in Pakistan has … Read the rest of this entry
NEWS ROUNDUP!: August 2nd, 2012
LOCKMART LOOKS TOWARD ITS EMPLOYEES TO CUT BALLOONING F-35 COSTS This is not only a good idea, it is a proven one. About a half decade or so ago the Joint Strike Fighter, namely the F-35B, was so over weight … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Uncategorized
2 Comments
TYLER’S 10 THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF DRONE WARFARE
1.) Drones will grow up to become droids- That’s right, autonomy is not only on the way, in many ways it exists today. Over the last decade or two, drones have been like infant children, requiring hand holding and constant … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in Opinon
9 Comments
NAVY SUPER HORNETS & F-35C ARE NO MATCH FOR “FORTRESS CHINA”: BRING ON THE X-47B UCAV!
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing-super-hornet-faces-emerging-anti-access-challenges-372393/ As I have been pounding away at for years now, the Super Hornet fleet is not survivable if a war were to break out with China or a bad actor who possess a modern integrated air defense system. Further, … Read the rest of this entry
Filed in China Rising, News, Opinon, The F-35 Saga
14 Comments
UNMANNED UAV CARRIER LANDING TESTS PASS WITH FLYING COLORS- THIS IS HUGE FOLKS.
This is really a big deal, the test Hornet flew with almost the exact X-47B UCAS-D’s hardware and software baseline configuration and the system really worked seamlessly. Although US Navy aircraft have been able to autoland to a certain extent for decades, no pilot puts … Read the rest of this entry
