Scaled Composites is best known for creating commercial spaceships for Sir Richard Branson, but it turns out the firm can construct more conventional flying machines, too. The company has joined ...

FLIR Systems, Inc. announced today that the Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared sensor completed successful flight operations on the Northrop Grumman Firebird, an intelligence gathering air ...

Northrop Grumman's subsidiary, Scaled Composites, unveiled Firebird, an optionally piloted military reconnaissance aircraft developed in approximately one year. Firebird features an innovative ...

The DA42 still has the prize for us as a proven OPV platform but this week Northrup Grumman unveiled their latest project the Firebird. Firebird offers a large internal payload bay and an ability to ...

Although the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as Global Hawk and Raven for military information gathering has increased sharply in the last decade due to the maturation and miniaturization ...

Drones and surveillance planes are each configured for specially tailored surveillance and attack missions of varying complexity, with unmanned systems typically bringing a narrower “soda-straw” type ...