As the Navy plans to deploy a weapon for the first time on a drone aircraft, an official said yesterday the service is open to using varied strike capabilities on the helicopter in the future. Capt. Pat Smith, head of the Naval Air System Command’s Multi-Mission Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems program office, said the Navy is on track to deploy a weaponized MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aircraft in 18 months. For the initial weaponization of the vertical-lift helicopter, the Navy…
Navy Open To Multiple Fire Scout Weapons
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