U.S. launches first successfully 'drone' from an aircraft carrier

The U.S. Navy released this Tuesday for the first time successfully from an aircraft carrier one droneor drone , which then returned to land without problems, the U.S. military said. The test was carried out on the aircraft carrier George HW Bush , off the coast of Virginia, from which it took off one drone X-47B model. After the test flight of one hour and five minutes, the aircraft landed on Patuxent River Naval bases in Maryland. "Today we saw a small but significant point in the future of our naval force as it begins its integration with unmanned systems in the atmosphere of war more complex that exists today: the deck of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier , "said in a statement Vice Adm. David Buss. The Pentagon hopes that in future test flights drones also can make landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier. The X-47B has a flight range of nearly 4,000 kilometers and can fly at a height of 10,000 meters. The current director of the CIA, John Brennan, has been one of the defenders attack drones , the number of operations have soared in recent years. The drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia, could have caused the death of about 4,000 people, hundreds of them civilians, according to estimates by Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch have openly criticized the use of these aircraft have described as "robots murderers".