Air Force is acquiring the MQ-4C Triton remotely piloted aircraft system
(RPAS). The MQ-4C Triton is disrupting traditional concepts used for
Maritime Patrol Aviation. With its long range and endurance, it will
enable teams of Air Force remote pilots, mission specialists, and ground
crew to plan and conduct airborne search missions across all areas of
Australia’s primary operating environment, form their xed home base.
The recongurable multi-station ground control station provides options
to concurrently manage a single sortie mission or multiple sorties within a
single or multiple discrete missions.
The integration of the MQ-4C Triton RPAS to the Distributed Ground
Station - Australia (DGS-AUS) will deliver a networked capability that not
only enables the ground control of the Triton mission but also connects the
mission outputs to networked users located throughout the Defence-wide
networked organisation, including aircrew ying the P-8A Poseidon. MQ-4C
Triton will be the fth-generation disruption to maritime surveillance.
MQ-4C Triton
A Fifth-Generation Air Force Disruption
for Maritime Surveillance
MQ-4C Triton
A Fifth-Generation Air Force Disruption
for Maritime Surveillance
Michael Spencer
Gavin Small
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