The Navy’s MQ-4C Triton remotely piloted aircraft, a variant of USAF’s RQ-4 Global Hawk, completes its first flight, flying for 1.5 hours over Palmdale, Calif. Northrop Grumman develops both RPAs.
The Pentagon is considering ditching the Air Force’s plan to buy the E-7 Wedgetail as it looks to outsource the airborne target-tracking mission to space, defense officials indicated this week.