Technical issues have forced the Navy to push back limited production of its planned high endurance unmanned aerial vehicle for maritime surveillance by at least a year. In rolling out its budget proposal for fiscal 2014 this week, the Navy said it needed to delay the low-rate initial-production (LRIP) phase and instead continue with the development and testing of the MQ-4 Triton program. The Triton is a variant of the Air Force’s RQ-4 Global Hawk and is being adapted for…
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