Click to open image viewer. First flown in 2002, the X-45A was the first modern UAV designed specifically for combat strike missions. The stealthy, swept-wing jet has fully retractable landing gear ...

With three of its four planned software block upgrades wrapped up, the X-45A Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) program is looking forward to a final software upgrade that will culminate in a ...

The X-45A is part of an elite group of aircraft that were tested in the skies above Mojave Diane Tedeschi The X-45A Vehicle 1 has two internal weapons bays. A small team of engineers constructed the ...