Northrop Grumman Corporation highlighted a wide range of its global security capabilities and programmes at the Singapore Airshow, including airborne early warning and control systems, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), fire control radars and infrared countermeasures.

“Our customer base across South East Asia is extremely important to us. Singapore is a key market, one in which we have considerable capabilities and a wide range of products to offer,” said Bill Schaefer, Sector Vice President of business development for the company’s Aerospace Systems sector. “Northrop Grumman’s technology leadership and proven capability in many areas, including airborne early warning and control and aerial surveillance, are well matched to meeting the region’s growing defence and security needs.”

The company featured its family of Q-4 high altitude long endurance aircraft such as the MQ-4C broad area maritime surveillance unmanned aircraft system (BAMS UAS), and E-2D advanced Hawkeye.

Based on the combat-proven RQ-4 Global Hawk UAS, the BAMS UAS is a versatile maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system to support a variety of missions while operating independently or in direct collaboration with fleet assets. When operational, BAMS will play a key role in providing commanders with a persistent, reliable picture of surface threats, covering vast areas of open ocean and littoral regions, significantly augmenting the use of other manned assets to execute surveillance and reconnaissance tasks.