The US Army finally gets its attack planes.

An MQ-1B Gray Eagle UAS, one of four currently in use at Fort Hood, sits on display at Robert Gray Army Airfield March 6 during a media event held to introduce the newest UAS training program at Fort Hood and mark the platform’s first daytime flight at the installation and 100 incident-free flight hours. Heather Graham-Ashley, Sentinel News Editor

via Ft Hood Sentinel

The future of the Army’s unmanned aeria1 systems program made its Fort Hood debut March 6 with its first daylight flight after years of planning and months of night flights. 
With oversight from the 21st Cavalry Brigade (Air Combat), Soldiers from Company E, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, conducted the UAS platform’s first day flight at Fort Hood. 
Daylight flight was just one of the milestones the UAS met, as that day also marked 100 hours of incident-free flight hours at the installation. 
It was a big day, not only for the first unit of Soldiers to train on the new UAS at Fort Hood, but also for the brigade tasked with training them and others on the Gray Eagle platform. 
“We are very proud of the events going on with Gray Eagle,” Col. Neil Hersey, commander, 21st Cav. Bde., said. “This is the Army’s newest, most advanced UAS.” 
This is the third unit 21st Cav. has trained, but the first that is conducting their training at Fort Hood.

Interesting.

No one is talking about it but you've got to wonder if Army Aviation isn't keeping an eye on the work that the Navy is doing with the X-47B.

Imagine that UAV in Army colors, flying Army missions, under Army control....

If they can have Gray Eagles then why not X-47's?

NOTE:  They painted the UAV in grey, why not their helicopters?