This US Drone Changed EVERYTHING - Here is Why!

The US finally tests its new deadliest X-47B drone in action. This advanced military technology is beyond anything we've seen before! As the US military's first and only autonomous combat drone with the ability to launch and recover from aircraft carriers, the X-47B is a game changer for future battles. Armed with JDAMs, it is designed to fight side-by-side with manned aircraft. Though the X-47B has had a troubled past, recent tests show a huge development that proves it is still in the fight.
#drone
#military
#beyondmilitary

[@kyleknopp8093]

I have seen the TR-3B which is def the daddy to this one. Mine was silent and hovering. Black triangle with glowing orbs in each corner underneath. Like it was its power source.

[@maxhansen-ho2fk]

Tr3b is the shit ❤

[@Masrcus420]

IT IS AN ANI-GRAVITY PLANE. AMAZING WITH THE POTENTIAL THAT NO OTHER PLANE OR AI CAN DO. THIS IS THE UFO PEOPLE ARE CLAIMING TO SEE. I HEARD THIS WAS ORIGINALLY ELON MUSK'S UNTIL BIDEN SAID HE DOESN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO CREATE HIS OWN WEAPONS WITHOUT THE HELP AND PAYING OUR GOVERNMENT WHO SPENDS TRILLIONS ON WARFARE.

[@tuvoca825]

They were working on scramjet drones long ago. I had a professor who worked on ion propulsion engines. They have people working on warp engines with various... uhm... workarounds. Interesting stuff.

[@maj.kennethwithrow8390]

This program was Axed in 2016, this story is eight years old.

[@TheLifeOfKane]

Lol, the program was axed, replaced by a similar one... aka it was never axed Theyve been fielding test versions this last year

[@aus2908]

@@TheLifeOfKane There doesn't appear to be any similar program except the Carrier-Based Aerial Refueling System research and the development of the MQ-25 Stingray, which is simply an aerial refueling drone, not a deadly attack drone 😂

[@rickbase833]

It's true. I was at Northrop when the USN shut down the X-47B. I then ended up working at a company that is a subcontractor on the MQ-25

[@AtroposLeshesis]

I think I caught these on video. I recorded my video about 2 years ago. I am not sure but the size looks right and so does the description I provided at the time. They were flying about 500 feet from the ground. It was filmed in north central Washington.

[@jimfulgham6866]

I noticed in the video showing it taking off and landing on the Carrier that the sea state is flat as a pancake. How does it do with a rolling and pitching deck?

[@CAM-wk3dj]

Hopefully, as our forces operate this advanced equipment, they can be recognized and accredited with education credits leading to degrees❤️

[@sierrawander7108]

Can the military produce anything under a billion dollars.

[@tuvoca825]

Liz Cheny?

[@Forevertrue]

No, thank Boing, Grumman, and Lockheed. You have to pay for their same engineering over and over and over. Like every new drone that can take off and land on a carrier you will pay for over and over. America is being robbed.

[@heath9782]

Probably not, since the military doesn't produce the aircraft or tools they use. Greedy civilian businesses that seem to overprice everything they make! Whether it's pharmaceutical companies charging 100 times more than foreign countries for meds or the weapon industries selling billion dollar aircraft! Greed

[@sierrawander7108]

@@heath9782 or the SCOTUS

[@Alfred.E.Newman]

NOPE toilet seats still cost over 20k apiece, and a bolt is 5 grand

[@CAM-wk3dj]

People are always FIRST in ALL Missions💪

[@nauka.religija7456]

The Russians made a drone like this many years ago, it's called a heavy strike drone, they just don't produce it, do they not attach importance to such technology?

[@x-man5056]

Imagine a fighter who's "G" limit 5x higher than 9 G's momentary that a manned fighter can.

[@brooksc900]

A billion-dollar drone loses the war against a hundred thousand, 10,000-dollar drone swarm.

[@Aftabba]

For anti-armor and anti-personnel target saturation? Sure, but they're different tools for different jobs. You need something that can fly hundreds of miles, and can deliver cruise missiles/guided munitions to penetrate hardened (under)ground structures. This demonstration plane had a service ceiling of 42,000ft and a max payload of 4500lb. It could fly higher, further, and deliver more potent munitions than any drone can, and that was 8 years ago. It's not cheap, but we similarly cannot scrap the Air Force and replace it with a million drones.

[@somedude288]

This thing got shot down by Iran in I think 2018 Ish

[@kuyajectv7923]

This is very possible with space x developing the Drone

[@kingrichee1817]

2013 and we’re in 2024 🤔I wonder that they been doing since 🤔

[@rokasb9441]

6:30 looks like starship from Star Wars :0

[@philipfreeman72]

Got info on U.S. tic tac vehicles ?

[@williamroberts6803]

Um I think other drones have been launched from the deck of an air craft carrier. Smaller ones for sure.

[@angelone8564]

Sky net performed flawlessly,...at first.. then it was given access to our most powerful weapons..

[@Fifthmiracle]

This program was cancelled in 2016, and the test aircraft have been in storage since 2017.

[@TheLifeOfKane]

Lmao, its been tested for 8 years since that...so maybe you just made that up, or misread an article 😂

[@reedwoodland1522]

It's the next step. Being 'cancled' in 2016 surely means there is no way it's happening now. surely.

[@NeilOkrent]

Anduril!

[@maxhansen-ho2fk]

Usa usa usa ❤ tr3b ❤

[@NGAD2027]

They may use it to test New Technologies and Weapons, But the X-47 Program was Cancelled, The US Navy Deemed it too Expensive.

[@ThexBorg]

X-47 can also carry a dozen loitering bombing drones against forward targets [sent out ahead to a few kilometres]. X-47 acting as a comms relay to kamikaze drone pilots [AKA like Ukraine].

[@richardmckinnon8791]

Lols already has an ABL Kill

[@eddybukayo7784]

And then china will make a thousand copycat of these and sell it to third world country 😅,,

[@Forevertrue]

They have the AI software now to take off, perform the mission, land, and reload. Now design a stealth drone around it to destroy the enemy with air to air, air to ground, and anti-ship missiles. there are tons of designs already out there.

[@ogoshen]

Why does everything have to cost a billion dollars?

[@laron_t_green]

Uh, the x 47 progam was canceled

[@wrtekcz538]

Stargate x301 lol

[@tobyihli9470]

Why the big deal of autonomous flight? Is it worth billions and billions? We’re not throwing them into the fight because they’re cheap, because they’re not.

[@rickluttrell5529]

Seems expensive and very limiting. Next.

[@Man-ub5ik]

The Chinese will 💯 copy the design n produce the knock-off version n will shamelessly boast about how their's were superior.

[@Forevertrue]

Or it will be sold to them by the US contractors. I do not trust any of them.

[@hillmieahmad]

No, your f35 is useless. Who want to copy useless made in America products? They made better technology than america. Why need to copy inferior technology made from america?

[@seanchang1202]

And you will always heard this line every time they boast a new product comes up, “拥有完全自主知识产权” which means “Possess completely independent intellectual property rights” of that product.

[@jan3019]

They already did lol

[@TheLifeOfKane]

​@@seanchang1202lmao... thats so interesting, thank for the info 😂 such a shame their governemnt acts this way, China is filled with ingenious and hardworking people

[@Crooked_Clown]

Definitely not a fighter jet

[@x-man5056]

This drone competed with Boeing's version for Navy Drone tanker and lost. Leave room for political decision over performance but I have no inside info on why.

[@WalterVetterli]

where do the Americans get the money from for this kind of thing?????

[@Pureblood712]

No russian bots here?

[@againstalladsgames]

While millions of Americans are starving and homeless.

[@larryjenks31]

While millions of illegal aliens -- *non-Americans!* -- are put up in hotels, given free medical care, all the free food they can eat, free education... to the tune of nearly 3 billion dollars thanks to the Biden administration and Democrats.

[@juventux]

This amount of money for one drone is just foolish, with the money spent on it, you could create many jobs that would in tern create hundreds of thousands of smaller efficient military drones.

[@jeffreyspinner5437]

Another weapon too expensive to use. Fleecing the public's tax money. Ffs. Just stop.

[@cthulholmhastur5317]

"In April 2015, it was reported that the X-47B demonstrators would become museum exhibits upon completing flight testing." Wikipedia. Not to mention the AI narrator. Utter clickbait.

[@paulm283]

A terrible waste of time and money

[@Alfred.E.Newman]

COME ON MAN big deal its almost always already been stolen by the CHINESE unless hunter sold it to them less the 10 percent demanded by DEMENTIA joe

[@MarkLandrebe-ef5yd]

Would be curious of race and gender of the STEM personnel behind this plane. Guesstimate of 85+% White Male.

[@ryanodneal7001]

This is junk. The only company iterating quickly and leading the technology of the future is Tesla, SpaceX ETC Elon Musk. Almost 20 years to build this junk and it can't land on a carrier. WTH. The old guard weapon companies are totally lost and have been for decades. Boeing has 2 Astronauts stuck in space right now. SpaceX will probably start designing weapon systems because they are so far ahead of every company on the planet by years and decades which is an insurmountable lead. Extremely impressive what Elon has achieved in an era of total losers. Thank God that the rest of the planet is even worse off for talent and innovation or our country would be at risk, strategically. We really lucked out.

[@peek2much3]

The problem is that Lockheed is the darling of the pentagon and the ones with the most lobbyists so when money gets tight they go to work grabbing as much of it as they can for LM. This leaves the awesome programs from NG in the dust even though they tend to be superior and on time. Just remember what happened with the YF23 which most experts consider even today as superior to the YF22. It’s all about politics and not about innovation.