article_snippet.sent: An airliner-sized Navy surveillance drone made
article_snippet.sent: An airliner-sized Navy surveillance drone first transcontinental flight in September, flying 11 hours across the US.
article_snippet.sent: The cross-country test was the first for the MQ-4C Triton, which will play a role in the Navy's planned Broad Area Maritime Surveillance program.
article_snippet.sent: An airliner-sized Navy surveillance drone can provide blanket surveillance for the Navy as part of the branch's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance program.
article_snippet.sent: the Triton uses 'radar, infrared sensors and advanced cameras to provide full-motion video and photographs' to the Navy personnel.
article_snippet.sent: Northrop Grumman says the unmanned aircraft also has a capacity to fly up to 28 hours at a time and surveil 1million square miles in Duarte.
article_snippet.sent: the Navy envisions the X-47B's successors, the UCLASS drones, as making 24-7 patrols around aircraft carriers. '
article_snippet.sent: We will have met all of the branch's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance program's mission objectives and will [take] those lessons learned, fold those lessons into the UCLASS performance specification,' Duarte said.