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Northrop Grumman Begins Offering Low Cost Special Mission Aircraft

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

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Seeking to meet the needs of ever more budget conscious government customers, Northrop Grumman [NOC] last week introduced and began demonstrating a relatively low cost special mission aircraft that can do wide area surveillance and intelligence missions as well as basic transport for a variety of missions. The Air Claw is an “affordable and highly capable” special mission aircraft that can perform border security, law enforcement, disaster response, event security and international security missions, Tom Kubit, the director of the…

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