U.S. Navy’s Triton Unmanned Aircraft Begins Radar Flights

Credit: Triton: Northrop Grumman
Flight tests of the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton’s main sensor, a 360-deg.-scan surveillance radar, have begun on the unmanned aircraft at the U.S. Navy’s NAS Patuxent River test center in Maryland. The Northrop Grumman ZPY-3 Multi-Function Active Sensor (MFAS) has completed 42 development flights...

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