The Northrop Grumman Corporation built MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter surpassed 5,000 flight hours while providing critical surveillance capabilities to field commanders in Afghanistan. Since ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) program has received a U.S. Navy modification award to a previous firm-fixed-price ...

The U.S. Navy is detailing the cause of two crashes of Northrop Grumman Corp.'s MQ-8B Fire Scout. To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your ...

The Navy is continuing to invest in unmanned ISR systems, awarding Northrop Grumman a $108.1 million contract for 10 more of its Fire Scout MQ-8C systems, unmanned helicopters that can operate from ...

Since its inception more than a decade ago as an "RQ-8A" flying robot built on a Schweizer Aircraft chassis, Northrop's MQ-8B drone helicopter has only gotten bigger -- and better. To date, the MQ-8B ...

MEDITERRANEAN SEA — Helicopter Strike Maritime Squadron (HSM) 46, Det. 9 recently surpassed the MQ-8B Fire Scout’s previous monthly flight hour record while performing operations at sea aboard USS ...

FIRE SCOUT CDR: Northrop Grumman completed the critical design review of its MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle for the U.S. Navy in mid-November, the company announced Dec. 2. The review ...

The US Navy’s latest autonomous helicopter system is making its operational debut in the Indo-Pacific region. The Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout is deploying to the region aboard the USS Jackson ...

The U.S. Navy is moving to expand its multidomain operational capacity by experimenting with new methods of deploying ship-launched drones from both land and sea. The intent is clearly ...