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Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy launched an unmanned aerial vehicle for its maiden test flight Wednesday for a program that calls for 68 aircraft. The MQ-4C Triton took off from Northrop’s Palmdale headquarters in California at 7:10 a.m. Pacific time and flew for one-and-a-half hours, the company said Wednesday. Mike Mackey, Northrop Grumman Triton [...]
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy had the X-47B unmanned combat drone perform an arrested landing on shore in Maryland for the first time Saturday, marking the final testing phase before a trial carrier landing later this month. The drone extended its landing hook to catch a cable extended across the aircraft landing area and [...]
Boeing‘s high-altitude long endurance drone for the U.S. Air Force has completed its second flight demonstration, according to a Defense News article. The Boeing phantom eye achieved a “picture-perfect landing” after the company completed upgrades from the results of its first test flight in June 2012. The aircraft flew from NASA‘s Dryden Flight Research at the Edwards Air [...]
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 [...]
Northrop Grumman and an EADS subsidiary are working together to develop a new unmanned aerial vehicle that Northrop says is based on its Global Hawk drone. The company said the EuroHawk drone flew its first test flight Friday for six hours and reached a maximum 54,000-foot altitude. EuroHawks contain signals intelligence sensors, built by EADS’ Cassidian subsidiary [...]
Northrop Grumman has delivered two more Global Hawk unmanned drones to the U.S. Air Force, bringing the branch’s total inventory of Global Hawks to 37. The company said it delivered the drones in November, following up on a delivery of three Global Hawks in 2012 and completion of new sensor installs onboard the unmanned aerial [...]
A General Dynamics subsidiary has built video capture and exploitation systems for distributing intelligence from unmanned aerial vehicles to soldiers. The company said the D-VEX systems operate onboard the Shadow 200 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System and are designed to work with commercially-available mobile hardware such as a laptop. Australian army forces received two systems for [...]
QinetiQ, BAE Systems and Thales are partnering to develop a decision support system for unmanned aerial vehicles to use for conducting routine tasks. QinetiQ said it plans to develop the Autonomy research program for a civil application, with a live flight trial scheduled in March 2013 in a live flight trial for the Autonomous Systems [...]
Northrop Grumman has announced its first customer has signed up for the unmanned aerial vehicle Sandstorm/Longshot training system, National Defense Magazine reports. Karl Purdy, Northrop Grumman’s UAS programs manager told the magazine the undisclosed customer “was so enthused by the sale, they’ve asked for more already.” The new training system is a fee-for-service program that allows customers to access [...]
