The Stunning Record-Breaking Blended-Wing-Body Aircraft

[@rocksnot952]

This will never be accepted by naval aviation, because it eliminates naval aviators.

[@proteusnz99]

Actually, both the Vought Regulus 1 and the V-1 copy Loon were launched off carriers. Of course they didn’t to land back on the carrier deck. On a calm day, it looks fine, bad weather might be more interesting. On the other hand, it wouldn’t care if it was day or night. I remember when the Autoland system was under development one unexpected problem was the system was so accurate that it kept hitting the same point on the runway starting to damage the concrete.

[@JSFGuy]

They did add in an expanded margin of error so it wouldn't hit the same spot every time it was that accurate. This goes back some years.

[@martykarr7058]

Actually, that's from the F/A-18's ACLS. When they introduced it on the Stennis, it was so accurate they kept on hitting the same spot too often and after the 1st deployment had to replace part of the flight deck and change the algotithim.

[@stevie-ray2020]

Only drawback to drones is the fact that a hostile nation is within their rights to shoot it down or seize it, if they see fit. Whereas doing the same to manned aircraft is considered an act of war!

[@martykarr7058]

It's essentially the A-12 Intruder II without people on board.

[@nafnaf0]

Elon could sell his FSD software for things like this, it will be worth billions

[@JSFGuy]

This just posted.