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Friday, November 01, 2013
1st flight for bigger helicopter drone
The Navy's next-generation helicopter drone took its first flight on Thursday, a milestone for the San Diego-based Northrop Grumman program.
The production model MQ-8C Fire Scout took off from Point Mugu in Ventura County and flew for seven minutes to verify that its autonomous control system works. A second 9-minute flight followed and reached 500 feet of altitude.
This Fire Scout is the “Charlie” version, which follows the smaller “Bravo” variant that has been deployed seven times aboard U.S. frigates and used for information-gathering in Afghanistan since 2011.
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Although a drone for attacking at sea is great, has there been any thought to using KMAX to do unreps at sea, which is what we spend significantly more time doing than combat operations?
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