Northrop Demonstrates System for Controlling UAV Missions from Aircraft Carriers

Posted on: Jun. 15th, 2004 || Source: irconnect.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

SAN DIEGO, June 15, 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully demonstrated a shipboard mission control system that will allow unmanned combat aerial vehicles to participate safely and autonomously in conventional manned, aircraft-carrier flight operations.



The mission control system allows an operator of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to change the mission plan of the vehicle in flight in response to new air traffic control requirements, system failures or changes in enemy activity.

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