The MQ-8C Fire Scout has been tested for a variety of purposes, such as mine countermeasures (MCM), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and communications relay. The U.S. Navy is moving to expand its ...

Just weeks after findings in a June report by the Pentagon's Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) cited the MQ-8B Fire Scout robotic helicopter’s data links as fragile and ...

The rapid expansion of Fire Scout mission concepts aligns with current U.S. Navy and industry efforts to ease the “integration” of the LCS onto different platforms As the U.S. Navy retires its MQ-8B ...

Although the MQ-8B Fire Scout robotic helicopter has only successfully completed half its assigned surveillance missions, the Defense Department has decided to double its purchases of the drones — 57 ...

The U.S. Navy is considering increasing the mission scope for its MQ-8C Fire Scout drone by integrating a new radar and making use of a cutting-edge suite of countermine detection and neutralization ...

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As the MQ-8B Fire Scout drone flies into the sunset after many years of successful missions, the U.S. Navy and its industry partners are sharpening their focus and expanding the mission scope for its ...

The U.S. Navy is increasingly relying on drones and unmanned systems as reconnaissance tools able to operate within a network of nodes designed to process and transmit time-sensitive targeting data.

The U.S. Navy is expanding the operational scope of its helicopter-like, vertical-take-off-and-landing Fire Scout drone as part of an effort to increase its impact in major maritime warfare. In ...

The US Navy (USN) has successfully demonstrated a prototype maritime mine detection system using the unmanned Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout helicopter. The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), of ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Navy successfully flew the unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout simultaneously with the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter for the first time. The capability ...