Northrop Grumman, SAN DIEGO: Northrop Grumman Corporation has conducted the first flight of a new configuration of the U.S. Army's RQ-5A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system called the Endurance Hunter (E-Hunter).
Conducted March 17 at a company flight test facility near Douglas, Ariz., the flight is part of an on-going cooperative effort between Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army to extend the range, endurance and payload capacity of the Hunter system. Northrop Grumman operated the new UAV under the control of a prototype