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Parker

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Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« on: July 11, 2013, 04:54:28 AM »
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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2013, 08:09:04 AM »

If this is the end result I'm ok with the machines taking over  ;D

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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2013, 08:15:17 AM »
Looks like the stealth Bomber? Cool landing. Rocking seas: night landings? 
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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2013, 08:21:11 AM »
fuck, I should have joined the Air Force.....this Video is in HD too...very nice landing....I'm sure this plane is around or close to $250 million...oh shit, unmanned plane landing like this on a carrier...that's some Great shit right here
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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2013, 08:33:21 AM »
Quote from: The_Punisher on July 11, 2013, 08:21:11 AM
fuck, I should have joined the Air Force.....this Video is in HD too...very nice landing....I'm sure this plane is around or close to $250 million...oh shit, unmanned plane landing like this on a carrier...that's some Great shit right here
the plane must not be that different from all others.
the controllers should not account for $250M but i could be wrong.

anyone has numbers($) on this aircraft?
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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2013, 08:44:56 AM »
Quote from: Parker on July 11, 2013, 04:54:28 AM
On a Carrier
  http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/x-47b-completes-first-carrier-landing-737900901

and yet when people say they can remote control  a car to make it crash they are called "crazy"
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Parker

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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2013, 09:37:15 AM »
Quote from: Bad Boy Dazza on July 11, 2013, 08:44:56 AM
and yet when people say they can remote control  a car to make it crash they are called "crazy"
I'm not sure if this was remote controlled. From my understanding that this was a autonomous landing...and it grabbed the second wire, too. Flawless.
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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2013, 01:08:23 PM »
Quote from: Bad Boy Dazza on July 11, 2013, 08:44:56 AM
and yet when people say they can remote control  a car to make it crash they are called "crazy"

The Hierarchy took over a few Toyota's a few years back and crashed them killing some people and in turn making Toyota look like shit...They blamed floor mats and some other shit but no doubt these things were hacked into by the Hierarchy...
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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2013, 01:25:25 PM »
but how much does it bench?
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Re: Skynet: Northrop Grumman X-47B w/ 1st Autonomous Landing
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2013, 01:40:32 PM »
Quote from: mik1111 on July 11, 2013, 08:33:21 AM
the plane must not be that different from all others.
the controllers should not account for $250M but i could be wrong.

anyone has numbers($) on this aircraft?

It's intended to be all-weather and day/night. They are being developed to be able to do 24/7 "orbits" from the carrier.

As for price....there isn't anything out there for per unit cost as there are only a handful in service for testing. The total program cost is around 1 billion. 

I'd say it will be a bit under your 250M number but the Global Hawk costs about 150M per copy, clean, and about 200M when you add in R&D cost. The Predator costs about 5M per copy.

Either way, that's a bargain.
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