US Navy Partners with Lockheed, General Atomics to Test New Drone Control System Written 11 November 2024
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A Predator C Avenger UAS. | Credit: MC1 Peter D. Lawlor; Wikipedia; Public Domain
Breaking Defense reports, “US Navy pilots sitting comfortably in Maryland recently took a new carrier-based drone control center out for a spin for the first time, piloting a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger thousands of miles away using autonomous tech made by Lockheed Martin’s secretive Skunk Works division. The live-flight test of the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station (UMCS), conducted Nov. 5, was done 'as part of an effort to advance technology for future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA),' Naval Aviation Systems Command wrote in a release on Thursday.”
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