Textron [TXT] said on Monday its Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) conducted its first flight and maritime integration with a Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) guided missile destroyer last month. Last October, the Navy awarded Textron a multi-year Aerosonde task order to use the ...
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The Navy is developing a new mine countermeasure system sensor suite to be used on the Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, with a prototype test set for this spring, the Navy said on March 2. The new capability is called the Single System Multi-Mission Airborne Mine ...
Northrop Grumman [NOC] delivered the first MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the Navy in the Integrated Functional Capability (IFC)-4 configuration on Feb. 1, the company said. The aircraft was delivered to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., as part of the Triton low-rate initial ...
The Navy is not certain if it will stay on target to integrate Link-16 into the Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter fleet by fiscal year 2023 due to budgetary issues, an official said Tuesday. “We have a little bit of budgetary uncertainty for the Link-16, so I am not sure ...
The latest version of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, the MQ-8C, deployed for the first time aboard the Littoral Combat Ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) last month, the Navy said on Monday. The MQ-8 Fire Scout is the only unmanned helicopter deployed with the Navy and is meant ...
The Navy successfully controlled the unmanned MQ-25A Stingray tanker aircraft on an aircraft carrier for the first time in non-flight deck handling demonstration tests aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the Navy said Dec. 20. Th Navy and aircraft builder Boeing [BA] have ...