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The
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<i><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">- The MQ-8C Fire Scout is a fully autonomous, fourblade, single-engine unmanned helicopter.  </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">- The 31-foot long Fire Scout can fly at airspeeds up to 110 knots and reach altitudes of 20,000 feet.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">- The
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powered by one Rolls-Royce heavy fuel turboshaft engine.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The US
 Navy is poised to begin operational testing of its new MQ-8C Fire Scout
 UAS, a vertical take-off-and landing drone engineered for maritime 
missions and slated to deploy aboard the services’ Littoral Combat Ship 
by 2018, service officials told <a class="" href="http://defensetech.org/2015/06/18/navy-tests-new-fire-scout-drone-variant-for-lcs/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Defencetech</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 MQ-8C is a larger, upgraded version of the currently existing MQ-8B 
Fire Scout, a vertical take-off– and landing unmanned system which 
deployed to the Pacific theater aboard the USS Fort Worth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Navy has been conducting initial testing with two test MQ-8C aircraft 
as a step toward eventually acquiring up to 40 MQ-8Cs, said Capt. Jeff 
Dodge, program manager, Multi-mission Technical Unmanned Air System 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Seventeen of the new drones are already on order, he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">“The 
MQ-8C has shown greater range and endurance than we had originally 
estimated,” Dodge said in an interview with Military.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 MQ-8C air vehicle upgrade will provide longer endurance, range and 
greater payload capability than the existing smaller MQ-8B.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The MQ-8C Fire Scout is a fully autonomous, fourblade, single-engine unmanned helicopter.</span></div>
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 will carry an array of reconnaissance, surveillance and target 
acquisition (RSTA) sensors to support warfighters' demands for enhanced 
situational awareness,' the firm said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After
 more than a year of land-based testing at Point Mugu, California, the 
MQ-8C Fire Scout has now made 22 takeoffs and 22 precision landings 
while being controlled from the ship's ground control station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 MQ-8C Fire Scout's flights from the USS Dunham represent a significant 
Navy milestone,' said said Capt. Jeff Dodge, Fire Scout program manager 
at Naval Air Systems Command.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This is the first sea-based flight of the MQ-8C and the first time an unmanned helicopter has operated from a destroyer.</span></div>
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The drone 
is based on a Bell 407 helicopter, </div>
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which is often used by hospitals, 
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movie studios and law enforcement agencies 
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The unmanned systems architecture has 
accrued more than 7,800 flight hours, with over 5,900 of those hours 
flown operationally from ships and on land.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 drone is based on a Bell 407 helicopter, which is often used by 
hospitals, news organizations, movie studios and law enforcement 
agencies worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Over 1,000 have been sold, with over 3 million accumulated flight hours - but now it is undergoing a radical conversion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Fire
 Scout supports both maritime and land-based missions, taking off and 
landing on aviation-capable warships, and at prepared and unprepared 
landing zones in proximity to ground troops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 unmanned systems architecture has accrued more than 7,800 flight hours,
 with over 5,900 of those hours flown operationally from ships and on 
land. </span></div>
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MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter

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