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Fire Scout Completes Maritime Sensor Demo For Coast Guard

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Thursday, December 17th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein Northrop Grumman [NOC] has successfully completed maritime sensor demonstrations for the Coast Guard using a company-owned MQ-8B Fire Scout tactical Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS). Fire Scout was equipped with the Telephonics' 1700B search, surveillance, tracking and imaging radar system, and FLIR [FLIR] Electro Optical Infrared system, and highlighted the versatility of the unmanned helicopter's modular payload architecture and its flexibility in integrating off-the-shelf payloads. The Telephonics radar was integrated on Fire Scout under an internal research…

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