It looks like a helicopter, but there's no one in the cockpit, and that's exactly the point. The MQ-8 Fire Scout is the U.S. Navy's unmanned eye in the sky, designed to take off, land, and fly all on ...

The Navy's drone helicopter, the Air Force's precision-landing system and the Army's digital radio for ground troops are among the Pentagon's weapons programs whose unit costs surged in the past year.

SAN DIEGO, 22 July 2013. Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC) has delivered its first MQ-8C system, an upgraded MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aerial system (UAS) to the U.S. Navy. Northrop Grumman is the Navy ...

The Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout surveillance drone has embarked on its first deployment aboard the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) USS Milwaukee. The Milwaukee is operating in the region of U.S. Southern ...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- USS Coronado (LCS 4) began underway operational testing of the Navy's newest unmanned helicopter, the MQ-8C Fire Scout, off the coast of San Diego, June 15. The operations are a ...

March 19 (UPI) --Bell Helicopter has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for three Bell 407 variant commercial airframes in support of the MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aerial system. The deal, ...

In the early 2000s, the US Army selected the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for its Future Combat Systems program. As such, the impressive rotary-winged drone was assigned to three ...

The U.S. Navy has started an analysis of alternatives (AoA) to define possible options for the Future Vertical Lift-Maritime Strike (FVL-MS) program, which aims to replace the Lockheed Martin/Sikorsky ...