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A version armed with the Northrop Grumman GBU-44/B Viper Strike weapon system is known as the MQ-5A/B. [3] As of October 2012, the U.S. Army had 20 MQ-5B Hunters in service. Retirement of the Hunter was expected to be completed in 2013, [4] but Northrop was awarded a support contract for the Hunter in January 2013, [5] extending its missions ...
[3] [5] [6] One arrived at Edwards Air Force Base on December 19, 2015 completing its first flight [7] and the rest stayed in plant 42 located in Palmdale. In July 2017, the USAF assigned the Mission Designation Series (MDS) of RQ-4D to the NATO AGS air vehicle. [8] The first RQ-4D aircraft arrived at Sigonella Air Base (NAS2) on 21 November 2019.
The squadron began flight testing for the General Atomics RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV in 2004, starting with the RQ-4A Block 10 in a major change in the tyoe of aircraft tested. Subsequently, the unit has tested RQ-4B Blocks 20, 30, 40, [23] [24] and has tested the NATO RQ-4D and Korea and Japan RQ-4 variants. The squadron was inactive from 2010 to 2017.
The French reconnaissance drone program began in 1995 with the purchase of four RQ-5 Hunter UAVs. The French military doctrine differentiates between contact drones with a range of up to 20 km and tactical drones with a range of 20 to 200 km; and so-called "theater drones" with ranges of 200 to 1000 km.
The U.S. Air Force may be ditching its aging U-2 spy plane in favor of a mysterious drone.
In June 2015, soldiers performed an initial test and evaluation for the One System Remote Video Terminal (OSRVT), enabling ground forces to control a Gray Eagle's payload. The OSRVT is a portable system consisting of a radio transceiver, laptop, antennas, and software to communicate with the UAV and receive video and other data from it.
The three-year program was undertaken by Northrop Grumman at a contract cost of $410 million, and focused on the basic design of the radar system. Phase II is a six-year, $888 million contract awarded by the Air Force's Electronic Systems Center in May, 2004, under which the radar system is being developed, tested and integrated.
Northrop received a $935-million fixed price contract to build the module in 2021 and took a $42-million charge in last year's fourth quarter because of higher expenses, raising its 2023 program ...