Navy's UCAS-D programme near crisis

摘要

A defence policy group has warned that the US Navy's institutional reluctance and budgetary pressures are combining to threaten the future of unmanned, stealthy aircraft operating from its aircraft carriers. Moreover, the Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) views an emerging crisis facing the service's Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) programme as a potentially critical blunder for national security policy.