Navy's New Triton Drone Getting Close to Taking Over for Older Patrol Aircraft
3 Aug 2021
Military.com | By Konstantin Toropin
The Navy's new MQ-4C Triton drones hit a new development milestone last week, the Navy's project manager announced Tuesday.
Capt. Dan Mackin, the naval program manager for the Triton program, said that a new configuration of the drone, loaded with more sensors, had its first flight last Thursday over Southern Maryland. The drone's newly installed cameras and signals intelligence collection systems "are performing better than expected at this point," Mackin said at a press conference at the annual Sea Air Space conference today.
The Northrop Grumman-made unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV -- an enhanced variant of the RQ-4 Global Hawk -- is part of the Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance program and boasts next-generation sensors specially engineered for seafaring operations.
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