Organization

Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division

US Navy aviation organisation headquartered at Patuxent River, Maryland, with more than 10,000 employees.

Description source: navair.navy.mil

Also known as NAWCAD

Coverage

An unmanned aircraft maneuvers over a scale model of a Navy Yard Patrol craft inside NAWCAD's indoor flight test facility

Collected 24 October 2026

Navy reports a GPS-free landing on a moving ship

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division says a tactical drone located a moving ship and landed without GPS or a pilot during summer flight tests.

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