https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8e36f875-a59c-44c2-b1e7-b30d974d109f This 36-second video from 2002 shows the X-45A/Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) performing a test flight over California's Mojave Desert near Edwards, CA. The UCAV system demonstration program was a joint Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/Air Force/Boeing effort to demonstrate the technical feasibility for a UCAV system to conduct various strike missions within the emerging global command and control architecture. The demonstrations within the program provided the information necessary 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/research/X45A/index.html Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/0XJ853pn9WU Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:53:20 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8e36f875-a59c-44c2-b1e7-b30d974d109f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.