[BitWielder1]

I think it means landing on a runway like the shuttle without a pilot on board.
Maybe even without (much) remote control.
They have indeed used parachuted or crash landing re-entries since the 60's.

[darth]

The wings give it a lot of cross range capability, and I suspect it can pull LOTS of Gs more than a human could handle. That makes it valuable for recon and dropping ordnance.

This means we could drop a penetrating bomb on some tyrant’s bunker moving at about 6000 meters/sec (nice penetration). This bird could hit any spot on Earth in about 30 minutes. The bad guys would have to live in a motor home (oops, we could put active guidance in the ordnance) so the motor home won’t work.

I first saw a prototype 23 years ago.