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9th Sep 2013, 07:29
Navy Plans for Poseidon Crew Control of Triton UAV 13 Aug 2013 RICHARD R. BURGESS, Managing Editor
"WASHINGTON – The Navy is planning toward a future capability of a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft crew exercising in-flight control of an MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
The P-8 and MQ-4C “are going to be sharing real-time information back and forth, and when you get into the later generations of P-8 capability and Triton capability, we’re actually going to get to a point where crews on [the] P-8 will operate, fly, [and] handle the sensors on Triton,” said Capt. James Hoke, the Navy’s Triton program manager, in an Aug. 13 briefing to reporters at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s Unmanned Systems 2013 conference.
Hoke said the P-8A and the MQ-4C represent the first time in naval aviation history that a manned platform — the P-3 Orion — is being replaced by a manned and an unmanned aircraft combination.
The Navy expects to fly the first Triton from Palmdale, Calif., to Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Md., in March, for the remainder of its test program. Operational assessment is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2014. Initial operational capability is scheduled for 2017.
The Navy’s first Triton squadron, Unmanned Patrol Squadron 19 (VUP-19), will stand up at NAS Jacksonville, Fla., in late 2014, Hoke said. The squadron eventually will operate three of the five Triton orbits worldwide. VUP-19 will be manned by 520 Sailors, many of whom will staff rotational detachments at forward operating bases. A second squadron, VUP-11, will stand up a year later.
In March, the Navy completed construction of a hangar for the Triton test fleet at NAS Patuxent River, the first Navy hangar constructed from the ground up for a UAV. The Navy also has begun construction of a Triton mission control center at NAS Jacksonville, scheduled for completion in 2014.
Hoke said that on Aug. 1, the U.S. and Australian governments signed an agreement to begin planning for Australian acquisition of the Triton."
SEAPOWER Magazine Online (http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/20130813-triton.html)
"WASHINGTON – The Navy is planning toward a future capability of a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft crew exercising in-flight control of an MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
The P-8 and MQ-4C “are going to be sharing real-time information back and forth, and when you get into the later generations of P-8 capability and Triton capability, we’re actually going to get to a point where crews on [the] P-8 will operate, fly, [and] handle the sensors on Triton,” said Capt. James Hoke, the Navy’s Triton program manager, in an Aug. 13 briefing to reporters at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s Unmanned Systems 2013 conference.
Hoke said the P-8A and the MQ-4C represent the first time in naval aviation history that a manned platform — the P-3 Orion — is being replaced by a manned and an unmanned aircraft combination.
The Navy expects to fly the first Triton from Palmdale, Calif., to Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Md., in March, for the remainder of its test program. Operational assessment is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2014. Initial operational capability is scheduled for 2017.
The Navy’s first Triton squadron, Unmanned Patrol Squadron 19 (VUP-19), will stand up at NAS Jacksonville, Fla., in late 2014, Hoke said. The squadron eventually will operate three of the five Triton orbits worldwide. VUP-19 will be manned by 520 Sailors, many of whom will staff rotational detachments at forward operating bases. A second squadron, VUP-11, will stand up a year later.
In March, the Navy completed construction of a hangar for the Triton test fleet at NAS Patuxent River, the first Navy hangar constructed from the ground up for a UAV. The Navy also has begun construction of a Triton mission control center at NAS Jacksonville, scheduled for completion in 2014.
Hoke said that on Aug. 1, the U.S. and Australian governments signed an agreement to begin planning for Australian acquisition of the Triton."
SEAPOWER Magazine Online (http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/20130813-triton.html)