The newest drones MQ-4C Triton The US Navy officially took over on duty

Newest American Drones MQ-4C Triton began flying from the military base "Point Mag" in California, thereby officially taking up combat duty, reports "Warspot" with reference to the portal defensenews.com. The first sample of the serial UAV MQ-4C Triton, designed to replace the navy manned reconnaissance aircraft, entered the US Navy last November. Prior to this, the US Navy used only manned long-range reconnaissance.

The MQ-4C Triton is a high-altitude long-range unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman based on drone RQ-4 Global Hawk and is designed to collect information, surveillance and reconnaissance in the coastal zone. Able to rise to a height of over 17 km, fly at a speed of 575 km / h and stay in the air for up to 24 hours. The reconnaissance equipment of the new drone includes a multifunctional radar, video camera, electro-optical / infrared sensors, radio intelligence, automatic identification system (AIS) and relay equipment.

Work on the creation of a drone for the US Navy started back in 2008, in 2012, the company provided the first prototype of the drone MQ-4C Triton, but customers changed the technical requirements for the drone and the UAV made its first flight only two years later - in October 2014, and two years later, the US Navy ordered the first batch of these machines. In May 2017, it became known that the US military command paid for the production of three more machines, as well as ground equipment for them. The first "Triton" went to the military point "Point Mag" (California). The second serial copy of the MQ-4C Triton should go there, and two more Tritons should be deployed on the island of Guam. In total, the US Navy plans in the long run to order 68 drone MQ-4C Triton.

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[AlexanderVP]

Masha is good, but not ours :)

[Logall]

Quote: AlexanderVP

Masha is good, but not ours :)

I agree, me, too, "toad" strangles. But it seems like something similar is about to appear ...

[Sergey ippon]

It is created and entered on duty, unfortunately it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t.

[RUSS]

Quote: AlexanderVP

Masha is good, but not ours :)

I agree well done Americans.

[rocket757]

The trend is annoying tremendously. They have a lack of natural pilots !!! None of the problems (for the time being conditionally) will be done with drones, and they will hire computer pilots for the ersatz pilots! The dream of many strategists, an online war ... so far we have nothing to oppose, however, and they still have hordes of drones dumb, for various reasons.
But in principle they will be the first!

[assa67]

Quote: rocket757

online war ... we have nothing to oppose so far, however, and they still have hordes of drones dumb, for various reasons.

instead of developing such systems, we “Mistals” bought “Iveks” ... and “optimized” the structure of the armed forces .... and this creature (former Minister of Defense and others like him) is still prospering ...

[rocket757]

The minister is just a lower link in the high corridors of power!
There is no feasible concept for developing the armed forces, there are no real plans for the industrial development of the military-industrial complex, there is no real ideology for building the country's armed forces .....
We are simply defending ourselves by the residual principle!
In principle, this is also possible, but this cannot continue indefinitely!
What will be the result, if all that is not there, it doesn’t appear yesterday, it’s possible to come, Nostrodamus does not have to be!

[assa67]

Victor, ... There is a system, there are opportunities, and financing is almost there ..... there is no political will: we want, like, to show ourselves as a civilized state (a question: for whom?), And at the same time to "get up". ...... in my opinion, until the death penalty for embezzlement officials is restored (I’m not talking about perverts, etc. ... but this is almost the same thing) - there will be no shifts

[rocket757]

Hi Andrew
In fairy tales - All is well beautiful marquise - I do not believe at all!
According to reputable experts (I believe them), the planning system and finally the services responsible for the proper organization of everything, everything in our armed forces have been reformed, consider destroyed as always !!!
Now all this goes through the recovery process, but it cannot be right away, for OBJECTIVE reasons, it takes time and it is not one year!
The shyness and incompetence of our political leadership are imposed, especially the lobbying of persons close to the supreme!
See who made decisions on important issues ??? Consider GDP yourself, and departmental, military-technical commissions must decide such questions !!!
My opinion is not absolute, but so far no one has shown anything more convincing.

[KVU-NSVD]

What a contrast to the previous news ... Here their advantage in two tram stops is undeniable ..

[AlexanderVP]

Something tells me that under the USSR such a thing was delivered by the army of the year for 3-4. And now they are rushing with some tenders, contracts, customers, because they are suing, planting, then again contracts, managers and other and other. When it’s here to develop UAVs, it’s not before.

[Professor]

Quote: AlexanderVP

Something tells me that under the USSR such a thing was put by the army of the year for 3-4.

How, comrade? And in those days, the lag in electronics was undeniable. I remember how every officer who visited Afghanistan took Sharpe home. He even brought himself a political officer. Not patriotic, but practical.

Quote: AlexanderVP

And now they are worn with some tenders, contracts, customers, because they are suing, planting, then again contracts, managers and other and other. When it’s time to develop the UAV itself, it’s not before that.

And now the lag is obvious. On the domestic drones are German diesel engines, Chinese electronics and so on.

[APASUS]

Quote: professor

How, comrade? And in those days, the lag in electronics was undeniable. I remember how every officer who visited Afghanistan took Sharpe home. He even brought himself a political officer. Not patriotic, but practical.

Come on telling tales, there were UAVs Flight D and UAV Korshun, UAV Filin in the USSR. For all the backlog in electronics. These systems were limited in the use of battle tactics in the representation of the military commanders of the USSR, not electronics was a problem

Quote: professor

And now the lag is obvious. On the domestic drones are German diesel engines, Chinese electronics and so on.

The whole world is so arranged. The Americans are going to put on your Abrams pile your invention of Trophy and are not shy about the lack of such systems with the stigma Made in USA

[militia2]

I agree basically. It would be good if life itself would help to turn on the right road here. Indeed, the system of competitions is awkward and not very dynamic. If something happens, it would be necessary to have (and test in advance) for such cases a mechanism for organizing new developments, which is quickly unfolding. But taking into account what Putin recently showed, there is hope that everything is not so bad with the organization of special works.

[asv363]

Quote: AlexanderVP

Something tells me that under the USSR such a thing was delivered by the army of the year for 3-4. And now they are rushing with some tenders, contracts, customers, because they are suing, planting, then again contracts, managers and other and other. When it’s here to develop UAVs, it’s not before.

Under the USSR, Buran managed to fly into space, there is nothing to compare.

[Antidote]

Leave the snowstorm alone, it flew without real-time control from a point hundreds of kilometers away. Compares warm to soft.

[Mountain shooter]

They need a whole chicken coop of such "birds", for they are painfully curious, and they care about everything in the world! We need birds to neutralize their curiosity. To fly up, "stick" to the body and "jammed" all their electronics completely. And when it was not salty, the loafers turned back, unfastened and flew to themselves, until future meetings. And throw them at the curious - from fighters, so as not to lose a lot of time intercepting.

[militia2]

God grant that this your idea would not come to your mind alone. And it seems that we will still see its implementation.

[kventinasd]

Not such a small machine of 15 tons

[Lawyer]

And if you suppress the radio control channel?

[Blackmokona]

That will complete the flight mission and will return to the base with reconnaissance data

[farcop]

Handsome, nothing to say

[PN]

It's not the same for everybody. I did not like him. From the word at all.

[triple dome]

Copied from the Israeli. eh ..

[voyaka uh]

In Israel, there is no jet. The Americans are ahead.

[-Pollux]

Quote: triple dome

Copied from the Israeli. eh ..

Troll Americans on American sites

[Xscorpion]

Judging by the name, MQ is a multi-purpose drone, not a reconnaissance one. The reconnaissance abbreviation is RQ.

[Every]

Good machine. We will not be able to catch up with the Americans here. We must look for ways to jam them or seize control. The benefit of UAVs allows this. Create a software crash and the drone is useless.