https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/c4599a1c-779f-4a66-8b5f-662002969c9e 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/research/X45A/index.html Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/uCLCq_ggCL4 Original channel: NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:29:58 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/c4599a1c-779f-4a66-8b5f-662002969c9e 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.