Two Northrop Grumman RQ-8A Fire Scout unmanned air vehicles have completed nine autonomous shipboard landings on the US Navy’s USS Nashville off the coast of Patuxent River NAS, Maryland – the first time a navy UAV has performed vertical landings on a moving ship without a pilot controlling the aircraft.
Source: Flight International
Airbus Defence & Space expects to complete final assembly work early next year on a first prototype SIRTAP unmanned air vehicle (UAV) for the Spanish military.
In a first of its kind flight, a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Gray Eagle short take-off and landing uncrewed aircraft has launched from a South Korean amphibious assault ship, the equivalent of a light aircraft carrier
As part of the evaluation, the navy controlled a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-20 Avenger uncrewed aerial vehicle using the Lockheed Martin control station that will be installed in the service’s fleet of aircraft carriers.
