This US Drone Changed EVERYTHING - Here is Why! 

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

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?

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.

Can the military produce anything under a billion dollars.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

People are always FIRST in ALL Missions💪

This is very possible with space x developing the Drone

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

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

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

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

6:30 looks like starship from Star Wars :0

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

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

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

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.

Anduril!

Why does everything have to cost a billion dollars?

Usa usa usa ❤ tr3b ❤

Lols already has an ABL Kill

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].

Stargate x301 lol

Uh, the x 47 progam was canceled

Seems expensive and very limiting. Next.

Definitely not a fighter jet

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.

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.

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

No russian bots here?

While millions of Americans are starving and homeless.

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.

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

A terrible waste of time and money

"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.

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

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

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.

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.