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Larger Version of Fire Scout Cargo Capable, Nothrop Grumman Says

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

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A Northrop Grumman [NOC] executive said the company plans to propose a larger variant of the Fire Scout unmanned helicopter in the Navy-Marine Corps program for providing a supply lift capability to soldiers in remote locations. George Vardoulakis, vice president for tactical unmanned systems, said in an interview recently that Northrop Grumman and partner Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron [TXT], have been investing internal research and development dollars to fund the MQ-8C, which is based on Bell’s 407 airframe.…

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