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Navy May Integrate Link-16 Into MQ-8C Late

Wednesday, January 26th, 2022

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Navy May Integrate Link-16 Into MQ-8C Late

An MQ-8C Fire Scout attached to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, Detachment 5, takes off from the flight deck of the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) on while it is in the Caribbean Sea on Jan. 6, 2022. (Photo: U.S. Navy by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Danielle Baker/Released)

The Navy is not certain if it will stay on target to integrate Link-16 into the Northrop Grumman [NOC] MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter fleet by fiscal year 2023 due to budgetary issues, an official said Tuesday. “We have a little bit of budgetary uncertainty for the Link-16, so I am not sure that we are going to be able to meet the target, but the intended value of Link-16 would be to share the data of all the sensors…

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