Northrop Grumman-Built MQ-8C Fire Scout Makes Operational Deployment with the US Navy

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MQ-8C Fire Scout, the U.S. Navy’s next generation ship-based autonomous helicopter system deployed operationally Dec. 14, 2021. Deployed with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22, Detachment 5 (HSC-22 DET 5) aboard USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), Fire Scout provides greater organic intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting (ISR&T) capabilities for the U.S. Navy.
Learn more: ngc.com/firescout
(U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Danielle Baker/Released)

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@ComfortsSpecter 2 жыл бұрын

*Smacks lips* “So-uh, I guess I’m some kinda-fourth?”

@usmclongrangebrainsurgeon 2 жыл бұрын

Get to the RC choppa

@reallyhappenings5597 2 жыл бұрын

What are the pros and cons of re-using an existing airframe to develop a drone? I'd think designers would at least give it distinct fuselage panels. Just looks funny.

@dmitryclarke2127 2 жыл бұрын

Guessing they are going through various funding stages and need to hit benchmarks before getting more money to advance in testing and design.

@Evolution8R 2 жыл бұрын

thats one badass RC heli, does it do 3D flight?

@Evolution8R 2 жыл бұрын

aww i thought he was going to do some tick tocks....

@FlameKaiser_1 2 жыл бұрын

Nice mod...gotta fix the textures though...it isn't loading 😅

@LDPIX Жыл бұрын

Hah! excellent 👌

@ARASISAN2501 2 жыл бұрын

I do not forget YF23.

@Edwardmodos 2 жыл бұрын

Can the R2 unit auto rotate?

@PleiadianDreams 2 жыл бұрын

*>*

@dirkmagurk7086 2 жыл бұрын

How do you see through the windscreen

@A1brams 2 жыл бұрын

It’s unmanned so you don’t need windshield at all. Operated via camera under the cockpit

@Aerial_Imaging 2 жыл бұрын

That's the neat thing, You don't.

@reallyhappenings5597 2 жыл бұрын

Autonomous or remote-piloted?

@davery87 2 жыл бұрын

Yes - seriously, it can be flown both ways, though launching and recovering aboard ship is strictly Operator commanded with selected automated steps.

@reallyhappenings5597 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't want to be standing under an experimental drone helicopter as it hovers for the first time

@Budabaii 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure it has hovered before they decided to put it on a boat and fly it over open water... a lot of testing has been done before they send it out to try in its actual work environment.

2 жыл бұрын

This is not your average DJI drone with a wifi connection which decides to take a bath as soona as you fly it over a pond. :)

@davery87 2 жыл бұрын

1st flight of the 8C was in 2013, with 1st ops from a LCS class ship first performed in 2017. lots of hours ashore and shipboard before this 1st OPERATIONAL deployment.