Northrop Grumman is building a drone for the U.S. Navy with the goal of having the first conventional unmanned aerial vehicle to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, Flight Global reports. Zach Rosenberg writes the X-47B drone is scheduled to fly and land on the USS George HW Bush in either April or [...]
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BAE Systems will install a laser-guided rocket onto a Northrop Grumman-made drone, marking the first time this weapon will be integrated onto an unmanned aerial vehicle. BAE said it will put its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System on the MQ-8B Fire Scout and also conduct system analyses and modeling based on flight simulations. The Fire [...]
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The Navy has ramped up its acquisition of unmanned helicopters for counter piracy missions and maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, Defense News reports. The Navy has ordered eight units of an updated variant of the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8B Fire Scouts that have been used since 2009 for ISR missions. The new model uses the frame of the [...]
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The U.S. Navy recently conducted tests during which it was able to successfully transmit images collected by the Northop Grumman-built Fire Scout unmanned aircraft to Lockheed Martin‘s new HM-60R Sea Hawk helicopter during a joint operation, according to a report in AOL Defense. Carlo Munoz writes that Navy deputy program manager Robert Kimble told reporters [...]
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