UAV - Triton flyr

Du ser at dette er en Global Hawk modifisert for samarbeid med P-8 Poseidon i det såkalte Broad Area Maritime Surveillance prosjektet.

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Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton Flight Testing

Posted on January 3, 2014 by The Editor

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy have completed nine initial flight tests of the Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS), marking the half-way point in a process called envelope expansion.

During envelope expansion, the test team validates the aircraft’s ability to operate at a range of altitudes, speeds and weights. The flights are taking place at the company’s manufacturing facility in Palmdale, California. The Triton test team accomplished endurance flights up to 9.4-hours at altitudes up to 50,000 feet.

The aircraft also performed doublets, a maneuver that tests the aircraft’s ability to recover from small perturbations in its flight path caused by turbulence.