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MQ-4C Triton Completes Operational Assessment, Inches Toward Milestone C Decision

MQ-4C Triton Completes Operational Assessment, Inches Toward Milestone C Decision
MQ-4C Triton during test flights in California. Photo: Northrop Grumman

The Navy’s long endurance surveillance drone, the MQ-4C Triton, has wrapped up its operational assessment, inching it one step closer to low rate initial production.After the service completes its final analysis of the data gathered during about 60 hours of flight testing, the Navy will make a Milestone C decision sometime this spring, MQ-4C manufacturer Northrop Grumman [NOC] said in a statement.During the assessment, a test team—which consisted of Navy personnel from Air Test and Evaluation Squadrons VX-1 and VX-20, Unmanned…

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