
General Atomics’ Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) and Ultra Maritime on Tuesday announced a new partnership to aid anti-submarine warfare (ASW) tracking by combining an unmanned aerial system with low-power sonobuoys and receivers. They specifically envision combining GA’s MQ-9B Sea Guardian UAS’ intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting (ISR&T) capabilities with Ultra Maritime's half-size exclusive small form factor sonobuoys to double the aircraft’s capacity and work around GPS-denied environments. “These sonobuoys will provide Multi-static Active (MSA) capabilities achieving unprecedented wide-area search. Furthermore,…