{"id":20263,"date":"2013-05-15T00:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T05:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20263"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:54:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:54:16","slug":"us-navy-successfully-launches-uav-from-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/us-navy-successfully-launches-uav-from-aircraft-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy successfully launches UAV from aircraft carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/05\/drone-carrier\/?cid=7977734\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Ackerman<\/a> talks about yesterday&#8217;s step forward for unmanned aircraft in the US Navy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ABOARD THE <em>U.S.S. GEORGE H.W. BUSH<\/em> \u2014 At 11:19 a.m. today, for the first time in history, a plane without a pilot in it executed one of the most complex missions in aviation: launching off an aircraft carrier at sea. Only the Navy can\u2019t yet land that drone aboard the <em>U.S.S. George H.W. Bush<\/em>, an even harder but necessary maneuver if large drones are really going to operate off carriers.<\/p>\n<p>On a crisp, bright and nearly cloudless day, about 100 miles off the Virginia coast, the crew of the <em>Bush<\/em> and the team behind the highly autonomous X-47B loaded up the deck\u2019s second catapult with the drone and shot it off into the sky above the eastern Atlantic. The drone \u2014 which has its own callsign, \u201cSalty Dog 502\u2033 \u2014 turned downwind and passed over the ship twice, first from 1000 feet overhead and then from 60 feet overhead, before flying back to dry land in Maryland. The launch went exactly as the Navy hoped.<\/p>\n<p>With that, the era of the drone took a major step toward patrolling the skies above the world\u2019s waterways. It\u2019s something the Navy hopes will have big implications for supplementing manned fighter jets in a carrier air wing, providing both persistent surveillance far out at sea and ultimately firing weapons in highly defended airspace that might mean death for human pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Navy officers openly likened the X-47B\u2019s launch off the Bush to the first-ever launch of a plane off the <em>U.S.S. Birmingham<\/em> in 1910. \u201cIt\u2019s one small step for man,\u201d remarked Rear Adm. 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