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Northrop Grumman, U.S. Navy Complete First Flight of Next Generation Fire Scout
2013-10-31 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Unmanned helicopter to provide greater endurance, payload and range<br /> <br /> POINT MUGU, Calif. — Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Navy successfully completed the first flight of the next-generation MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, Calif.<br /> <br /> At 12:05 p.m. the MQ-8C Fire Scout took off and flew for seven minutes in restricted airspace to validate the autonomous control systems. A second flight that took off ...This story is related to the following:Helicopters |
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