Search This Blog

Friday, June 12, 2015

No land role for $2.5bn Triton maritime drones

MQ-4C TritonAustralia plans to spend about $2.5 billion for up to seven unmanned Triton maritime drones in a move which will transform Australia’s ability to patrol its vast maritime approaches.

But the air force’s hopes of having a special land-tracking feature incorporated into the Triton drones looks unlikely after Defence overruled the air force and recommended against investing in the joint development of the new aircraft with the US Navy.

The Ground Moving Target Indicator, which would allow the drones to pinpoint and identify a target such as a suspected terrorist travelling by land was going to be included only if Australia invested up front in the US Triton program.

Read more
om

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

The material is being made available in an effort to advance understanding arms trade activities, for non-profit research and educational purposes only.

I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

This is a completely non-commercial site for private personal use. No fee is charged, and no money is made off of the operation of this site.