 The X-47 Bravo unmanned combat air system demonstrator completed its first-ever carrier-based catapult launch from USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia May 14. After launching from the flight deck, it executed several planned low approaches to the carrier and safely made its way across the Chesapeake Bay and landed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. The launch demonstrated the team's ability to navigate the X-47 Bravo on an aircraft carrier at sea and seamlessly pass control of the vehicle from a mission operator aboard the carrier to one located in the Mission Test Control Center at Pax River for landing. Over the next few weeks, the X-47 Bravo will fly approaches to the ship multiple times and later will undergo additional shore-based testing before its final carrier-based arrested landing demonstration this summer. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Amara Timberlake.