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 MQ-8C Fire Scout drone emerged from ...

Maintainers from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1) analyze diagnostics from the MQ-8C Fire Scout on the flight deck of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4 ...

10 Aug 2022, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The U.S. Navy said this week the MQ-8C Fire Scout was involved in the Resolute Hunter exercise in California back in June, flew for a total of 23 ...

The Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout was to perform a range of surface warfare, airborne mine countermeasures, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions from the decks of ...

An MQ-8C Fire Scout sits on the deck of USS Montgomery (LCS 8). The Navy's MQ-8 program manager said the service will not continue efforts to weaponize the aircraft until at least 2023.

The latest variant of the US Navy's Fire Scout UAV has flown for the first time in California, during which it stayed airborne for seven and nine minutes over two tests, service officials have ...

Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout . Image source: Northrop Grumman. Three years ago, the U.S. Navy began testing Northrop Grumman's (NYSE: NOC) newest version of the Fire Scout, a helicopter drone ...

An MQ-8C Fire Scout helicopter sits on the deck of Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS-8). US Navy Photo The Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles will receive ...

The recent testing makes it possible to begin equipping all LCS ships with the MQ-8B and soon the MQ-8C as well. The navy has been developing a larger MQ-8C version, which made its first flight on ...

The Navy has paused operations for all of its new MQ-8C Fire Scouts after two of the unmanned helicopters were involved in separate accidents less than a week apart. The Naval Safety Center ...

Langer/Navy) The littoral combat ship Jackson wrapped up its initial deployment — to U.S. 7th Fleet — this month, carrying out manned-unmanned operations with the MQ-8C Fire Scout. But after ...