Navy Completes First Flight Of Game-Changing MQ-4C Triton Spy Drone [Video]

The long-range maritime drone will give the U.S. unprecedented surveillance of the world's oceans. For the U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman, it's shaping up to be a banner year in unmanned flight. While the carrier-based autonomous X-47B continues to hit milestones aboard the USS George H.W. Bush somewhere off the East Coast, out west in Palmdale, Calif., today the Navy flew its MQ-4C Triton maritime drone for the first time, marking the beginning of a sea change (pardon the pun) in the way the U....