Posted on 06/11/2017 8:52:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Navy is Preparing the MQ-4C Triton Maritime Drone for Service in the Pacific Theater; the drone is now being configured with collision avoidance technology and advanced maritime sensors enabling it to zero in on enemy ships at sea.
SHARE & EMBED Navy MQ-4C Triton - High Altitude Maritime Autonomous Drone -- Will Deliver Later This Year Scout Warrior SCOUT WARRIOR Yesterday at 8:37 PM The Navy is Preparing the MQ-4C Triton Maritime Drone for Service in the Pacific Theater; the drone is now being configured with collision avoidance technology and advanced maritime sensors enabling it to zero in on enemy ships at sea.
The Navy and Northrop Grumman are updating software and sensors on a new high-tech, autonomous maritime drone designed to identify and zero in on enemy ship targets at sea, service and industry officials said.
The Navy's Triton autonomous drone, called the MQ-4C, is now receiving a "3.1 software" integration as part of a technical plan for the aircraft to be operational by 2018. The first Tritons are slated to deliver sometime later this year, developers said.
"3.1 software gets you to the point where you can use the sensors in an operational environment," Tom Twomey, senior manager business development, Triton, Northrop Grumman, told Scout Warrior in an interview.
The sensor package being designed for the aircraft includes what the Navy calls a multi-function array sensor, or MFAS.
The Triton's electronics include an electro-optical/infrared sensor, a 360-degree active electronically scanned array radar and inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), among other things, Navy developers have said. The sensors create a common operational maritime picture including images, data and full-motion video. An electronic support measure is also able to detect maritime signals.
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Some bad news for China.
We need high-power lasers on ships yesterday.
Designed to function as a maritime version of the Air Force’s Global Hawk surveillance plane, the Triton is designed for high-altitude, long-dwell ISR missions - the kind of technology suited for the geographically dispersed Pacific theater.
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The word “drone” used to mean what we now have to call “autonomous drone”.
What we now call “drone” is really “remote controlled aircraft”.
A true drone is on its own. There is nobody controlling it. At least, that was the meaning before about 20 years ago.
High Altitude Maritime...? So it only works above water? Or is it a shallow water (upper zone of the ocean) drone? /s
If this system is supposed to provide surveilance of the Pacific, can one Triton do it? I doubt it, it will probably take a fleet of ‘em. Turn a globe with the Pacific facing you, and half the earth is ocean.
The future is here. They can be efficient and devastating with no worry of a pilot.
Remind me of when the Terminators are coming.
That is one cool looking jet-powered, ground launched and recovered, high/low altitude, long-winged, re-usable satellite they got there.
The kids today got it good. As toys go, that's one of the best I've seen. Sure wish I had something like that to play with when I was a kid.
It easily beats that Estes rocked with the camera. No contest whatsoever.
Where’s the weapons?
A Hell Fire won’t sink a destroy.
Just saying.
5.56mm
Do you think it is DOS 3.1? I really liked that.
I believe that you can deploy drones from many different types of ships.
This particular one is to be land based.
We've come a long way since balloons and biplanes.
back when I was doing testing of UAV-SRs for the U.S. Navy in 1990 and 1991, they were running UNIX. I still intercepted and recorded their entire comms links, video downlink (seeing what they were seeing), and the C&C.
my very first comment to my chief with me was why the fuck is this not encrypted chief?
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