Similar to the UFO "X-47B" passed the first test

A jet military unmanned aircraft of the new generation "X-47B" for the first time carried out a flight in a regular, so-called cruising, mode. The previous flight tests, which were launched quite recently, had flown with the landing gear extended, which prevented a full test of its aerodynamic properties. And only now, during his last flight, the landing gear was removed. This allowed the experts to confirm the declared characteristics drone at higher speeds and over a wider range of altitudes.

An unmanned automatic aircraft "X-47B" was created, taking into account the highest requirements for its aerodynamic properties. For these purposes, its design did not even provide for the presence of tail, which additionally contributed to its “invisibility”.

The development of the drone "X-47B" is carried out in the company "Northrop Grumman" on the orders of the US Navy. The military plan to use it as a deck drone. The device is being developed as a shock robot aircraft that can perform a wide variety of combat missions at higher speeds. UAVs "Predator" and "Reaper", which are currently widely used, do not reach such speeds.

It is believed that the "X-47B" will be the first unmanned stealth aircraft, which is able to take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier, and then to land on it. The experts of the US Navy are also working in the direction of providing the X-47B control systems with a system of perfect artificial intelligence. Such a system will enable it, without human intervention, to make independent decisions in the context of modern military operations. Well, how can you not recall the plot of the popular movie 2005 of the year “Invisible / Stealth / Stealth”.

Comments

[Sergh]

If I don't catch up with something, then if everything is so difficult, only if you fight a normal enemy, and now almost everyone has developed air defense, what's the point of putting so much money under a missile? In the slightest military conflicts, this "frog" will not regret any missiles to raise an interceptor. Therefore, they must be kept in hundreds or even more. And this is a fait accompli.
I can only imagine that such a "pipelatz", I do not argue, is good, but it is profitable to use it without loss only for observing rice and trust fields, and sitting on the occupied territory in Afghanistan, Iraq, but it is also expensive there. As invisible, these are old tales. It's hard for sailors to fly to the coast, to look at Iran, it's hard to believe. Who can give an intelligible answer?

[zczczc]

Serghexplain :)
This expensive toy is expensive only because the first one. In the near future, the drone will be much cheaper than a conventional fighter and will not leave a single chance to airplanes with live pilots. And that's why:
1. No pilot life support systems - cheaper;
2. For reconnaissance purposes, you can make airplanes the size of even a fly;
3. For striking targets with low armament, you can make small planes, in which the dwarf will not climb, but the plane will also fulfill its task;
4. There are no problems with overloads - the iron will withstand much more;
5. There are no problems with the management of several goals by the brain of a pilot who, as you know, can’t lead more than 6 goals (someone like 7 could, but this is an exception);
6. There are no problems with the subjectively-erroneous assessment of the situation (I will hold out, will not hold out when there is a lack of fuel, I will pass through, I will not slip through);
7. Fuel economy with a fully artificial brain;
8. Savings on training - HUGE (no flight schools)! Every pilot needs to be taught, and the algorithm can be improved alone all his life;
9. Savings in operation on people (no corny dormitories, canteens, hozblok for pilots);

Does anyone know the principles of modern chess programs? In short - they (programs) use a huge (total) database of openings, middlegames and endgames, each of which has already been evaluated by the program according to the criteria of saving material (pieces), changing the control of the board (who is leading), etc., and when the program plays with a person, then she looks into this database in search of similar positions and, if she finds it, she simply scratches the best way out of it, and if she doesn't find it, then brute force (brute force, i.e. thinks based on the rules). At present, a person cannot beat a computer, even a banal desktop one. Well, that is, it can, but extremely rarely, rather by accident. We are talking about professional chess players, even about Kramnik, for example. Who does not believe - win the "fish" program on an equal footing. Likewise, the drone will use the best options for getting out of situations on the scale of the ENTIRE database, which will contain everything that is known to the aircraft manufacturer, and the person will use only what he has learned personally. Those. without options - people-pilots, alas, sooner or later, will not be needed. In any case, in military aviation for sure (there is no moral risk of losing passengers).

This He-47Be is a huge Pindos victory. They already have something to work out algorithms on, and we don’t. About 10 years is definitely enough to test the algorithms - you put a human pilot, and the computer records and analyzes his actions. And in our plans there is no glider of this level, and a control system for it, because there is nothing to hone algorithms on.

[Sergh]

Approve! You say the thing!

[Sergh]

Well, I touched a very deep topic! Oleg, you must understand yourself, but give the intellect to the machines, if there will be a revolution of machines! Here is the "Terminator" in front of the nose. Incidentally, the Merikos already had this. It's hard to believe, especially since all this tinsel is transmitted by a radio signal, this is a barrier, an interception ... but we will not. Many options. These are all illusions based on impunity. As soon as reality comes, sobering begins immediately!

[baluru72]

Money swelled into it specific ,,, And it gets off with one rocket. It’s easier to make small unmanned aerial vehicles with solar batteries --- and it’s cheaper and harder to shoot down ,,,

[Net]

US Naval experts are also working towards providing the X-47B control systems with a system of advanced artificial intelligence. Such a system will enable him to make independent decisions in modern combat operations without human intervention.

That's for sure. Decisions will be prompted by hackers from China and the Russian Federation.

[boos24]

even if they develop more such crazy ideas, there will not be enough money for really important products. build on and the Taliban will slaughter them with slingshots

[axmetoff.timur]

Pindos are doing everything right, for anti-terrorist and counterinsurgency actions in Libya, Iraq and Pakistan-Afghanistan, it is ideal, no one will be allowed to slaughter him in the face of a powerful enemy that is not suppressed by air defense

[Foamas]

I will add
If the decision is made that the game is worth the candle, it can be effectively used to suppress the air defense itself at the very beginning of an air offensive operation (in conjunction with decoys, jamming, to open air defense positions and ensure the guaranteed defeat of these by the second shock echelon (SB with KR and KRKB).

[Max]

Due to its small size, lack of tail, shape and stealth technology, even the most promising air defense system will detect it 2-3 times closer than any other aircraft. This will allow the drone to fly to the required distance to launch cruise missiles with 3 or 4 swoops, which in turn will fly at a distance of 30m above the ground. All this combined increases the chance to hit the air defense system, in particular the radar, which will be part of this system.

[Sergh]

Yes, this stealth, literate people laugh, as much as stomach tear over it. What, what swoops, 3-4 M or what? Googled, look at her weight, and then try on this frog! The X-47B has a maximum load capacity of 1,5-1,6 tons, and then this is calculated. If they alone (the rocket) will be together, the three of them will drag ... I would look at it!

[Max]

Weight of a simple tomahawk 1t. Calmly taken on board. Given the expensive drone technology, the rocket (s) themselves will also be the latest developments in all respects, including by weight.

[Sergh]

Yes, God bless you, young man, a tamahawk flies a little faster than our maize !!! (0,5M-0,75M) and a length of 4,88 to 6.25 meters, if this frog is beaten in gozno, then I agree. To whom to fence something? I do not understand, but where are the 4-5 swings of this sausage?

[Max]

As for speed, I repeat, simple tomahawks with a flight speed of 0.75M will not stand on such futuristic drones.
And for example, here are such hypersonic ones: X-51A Waverider (6 times the speed of sound), some kind of mini version.

Z.Y. Wake up NEo, 21st Century Outside.

[Sergh]

Well then, everything is clear with you. And why am I right?

[baluru72]

Yes, let them spend the money ,,, Work out ,,, Anyway, we’ll come up with something cheaper and better, ,, it’s not the first time to surprise the world, and everyone knows it there ,,, I remember that in Yugoslavia several stealth were shot down by missiles of the 70s ,,,, Because they worked in the old range, but you can see them in it ,,,

[Professor]

I would not neglect this UAV. This papelats will not fly alone. Against a flock of such drones in the presence of even modern false targets and electronic warfare NOT ONE! air defense system will not stand. Well, cruise missiles will finish the job.

[CARTRIDGE]

It’s interesting, let’s say, as he says, due to his invisibility, he will deliver the rocket at close range, but firstly, it is possible to destroy the aircraft from which he takes off, and secondly why transport the rocket if it flies itself. So, airplanes with really artificial intelligence and they will replace fighter pilots and the mass of armaments will be at the level then I agree, and so they can be used as reconnaissance aircraft or to fight against poits ...

[viktor_ui]

I read comments like that STELS and UAVs are full of crap and the Yankees are craping around ... develop your eyes and brains - THIS IS ANOTHER AGE, ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY AND ANOTHER ON THE PRINCIPLE OF WAR. And with cyber porters, they also crap ... well, well, its mechanics and behavior algorithms have already been fully developed, and this alone opens up a huge new sector for the development of terrestrial systems ... It is hoped that all Pindos and other cyber systems will be urinated by EMR ( such as a fantastic miracle-chumodan or a vigorous explosion) - a mare. Technology - RULIT.
I want to note one more position: starting with the Iraqi company, etc. SAUSAGE NAMEDLY SOVIET-RUSSIAN air defense systems and extinguish them not because they have run out of ammunition ... (like stupid calculations I don’t take into account either) - and they beat with deadly increasing efficiency (as far as I remember, Iraq already had 300 matches) but they don’t look like they were there, if they made a mistake - correct it.) The Shell system has already been tried for a tooth and not in our favor ... you can continue this topic, which is extremely unpleasant for me, for a very long and tedious period.
A simple example for everyone: at one time, the Arabs (or the Egyptians) in conflict with the Jews had a nightly superiority that was fucked up for that time - their tanks were equipped with a night vision system (Luna-1, who knows?) And Tsakhalu was very bad, but they were VERY quickly solved this problem and won in the end. My final wish is that if we have a new technology (in the form of a diamond), then we need to cut this diamond (technology) with sufficient frequency for a new one so that it corresponds to the principles of modern warfare. Us and so at least an order of magnitude further see in any conditions.

[Uncle Sam]

US technology is a different level of development and it is not even reachable for China, there is no talk about Russia at all.
for ease of understanding - compare the imported car and Russian rogue cars, and everything will be clear. Otherwise, the same proportion, who will say that the VPC has other technologies - is nonsense, everything is the same, for example, a Muscovite 412 was produced by a military factory, * amno from * amna

[Cross]

thick, comrade, thick ...

[viktor_ui]

Uncle Sam - I don’t understand your comment about technology ... especially about a Muscovite (you could have just added the issue of pots to the military-industrial complex). The existing technological lag is a product of the action of our delegates of all stripes with whom our country is often unlucky. Well, where the responsible people turn out to be sane, then we will have extremely effective development of any kind of direction ... The conglomerate of Russian engineering will always be unique and be of value to everyone and everyone (who has brains in place).

[SVD]

Viktor_ui wrote:

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I want to note one more position: starting with the Iraqi company, etc. SAUSAGE NAMEDLY SOVIET-RUSSIAN air defense systems and extinguish them not because they have run out of ammunition ... (like stupid calculations I don’t take into account either) - and they beat with deadly increasing efficiency (as far as I remember, Iraq already had 300 matches) but they don’t look like they were there, if they made a mistake - correct it.) The Shell system has already been tried for a tooth and not in our favor ... you can continue this topic, which is extremely unpleasant for me, for a very long and tedious period.
...

Viktor_ui, you, along the way, are as dumb as those Iraqis, Arabs who used Soviet armor, 300s, etc. I explain: the air defense system should be systematic. If you buy a couple of units, and proudly beat yourself with your heels in the chest - there won’t be anything good, they simply fill up with mass, well, they’ll manage to bring down several planes, which all these conflicts have shown. If you CREATE a REALLY SYSTEMIC air defense, then pendosny would break their teeth for the very same Iran, Libya, etc.

[viktor_ui]

SVD - how stupid, stupidly I explain (we can virtually reach my patriotic skull) ... IRAQ had saturation of air defense by orders of magnitude superior to what we have chichas (or to shred the bush to argue that we like to get hurt in this field ??? - if so, then let the dreamer continue).
WE HAVE EXACTLY AN AIR SYSTEM of the whole country !!! I suppose you are living in the Urals, in the Europeid part ??? There is a technological lag, and only TUPOJ does not see this moment. Amers have brain, technological and human superiority. You probably love the great Ashurbeyli and K? I have one hope that our elite in the philistine way will simply leave behind beloved ones for themselves and begin to really dump the loot for maintaining the status quo for themselves beloved ones. After all, if you do not twist, but a quarter century of idiocy with the army should come around, preferably in a positive direction.

[Honory]

Well done America. Always at the forefront of progress. Well, what you need to catch up. For drones, the future is clear.