The USN has strongly defended its UCAS-Demonstrator programme, despite both X-47B aircraft managing to land on board a carrier only twice in four attempts during July. R Adm Mat Winter of the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons fought off criticism of the programme, saying that UCAS-D had successfully 'matured' critical technology required for operations in the carrier environment. '[It] has set the stage for naval aviation to blaze the trail for relevant unmanned, carrier-based warfighting capabilities,' he said in a statement. On 10 July, X-47B 'Salty Dog 502' successfully conducted the first ever UAV arrested carrier landing on board the USS George H W Bush. Following a second landing, a third attempt was aborted due to a malfunction with one of the aircraft's precision navigation systems.
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机译：尽管两架X-47B飞机在7月期间四次尝试仅两次降落在航母上，但USN仍坚决捍卫其UCAS-Demonstrator计划。无人机和打击武器计划执行办公室的R Adm Mat Winter抵制了对该计划的批评，他说UCAS-D成功地“成熟”了舰载环境中运行所需的关键技术。他在一份声明中说：“它为海军航空奠定了舞台，以提供相关的无人舰载战斗力。” 7月10日，X-47B“咸狗502”成功进行了有史以来第一架被捕的无人机降落在乔治·H·W·布什号航空母舰上。第二次降落后，由于飞机的一个精密导航系统发生故障，第三次尝试被中止。
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