Aircraft Carrier Robot Drones

The other night Shepard Smith on FOX News had a segment on unmanned aircraft called drones...little tiny aircraft used for recon and intelligence missions. Knowing nothing about this, I thought it very fascinating. Down the road, we will have the ability to spy on everything and everyone. Some day, the whole world will have the technology and perhaps then we won't need a Julian or the National Enquirer.

In October, NASA conducted the first test flights of its newly acquired Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, a jet-powered drone that can fly at altitudes up to 65,000 feet (where it can avoid the rough weather of polar regions) for more than 31 hours at a time. It can literally fly to the other end of the earth on a single tank of fuel.

Many companies are developing drones: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, The Naval Research laboratory, Aurora Flight Sciences, to name a few. There is nothing greater than U.S. ingenuity.

Part 1 - X47-B Demonstrator
Northrup Grumman

Part 2
Ready in 2018