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Navy To Deploy First VUAS Next Week from USS

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Friday, October 9th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein The Navy will deploy the MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS), the first time a large, automated unmanned aerial system (UAS) has been delivered for shipboard operation by sailors, according to the service. The Navy had been planning to first use Fire Scout from the USS McInerney (FFG-8), after successfully completing a series of landings and approaches aboard the frigate earlier this year (Defense Daily, May 6). Those tests also demonstrated the Unmanned Common Automatic…

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