X45A UCAV Project Overview and Autonomous Formation Maneuver

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This 5-minute, 25-second video from 2002 provides a detailed overview of the X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) project and features an autonomous formation maneuver over Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. • The UCAV system demonstration program was a joint Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/Air Force/Boeing effort to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a UCAV system to conduct various strike missions within the emerging global command and control architecture. The demonstrations within the program provided the information to enable decision-makers to determine whether it was technically and fiscally prudent to continue development of UCAV aircraft to perform missions. • The Dryden Flight Research Center’s (now Armstrong) role in the UCAV program was providing technical expertise and facilities support for the UCAV X-45A under a 1999 agreement with DARPA and The Boeing Company. The X-45A consisted of two UCAV demonstration aircraft that were used in advance of fielding operational systems around 2008. • To learn more about the X-45A visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/r...

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