Northrop Grumman [NOC] has rolled out the first production aircraft of the Navy’s version of Global Hawk, an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to perform wide-area maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Northrop Grumman unveiled the Navy’s MQ-4C “Triton” recently at its manufacturing facility in Palmdale, Calif. The high-flying, long endurance aircraft is the first of 68 the service plans to buy under the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance, or BAMS, program. The first Triton is one of two MQ-4Cs the…
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