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Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout IOC Delayed a Year

Wednesday, April 15th, 2015

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Flight tests of the Navy’s new MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned surveillance aircraft are going well, but have been slowed by the limited availability of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) to host those tests, according to a program official.Navy Capt. Jeff Dodge, program manager for Navy and Marine Corps Multi-Mission Tactical Unmanned Air Systems, said the MQ-8C has flown more than 400 hours and has experienced “very few problems in test.” But because LCS is in “very high demand,” Fire Scout…

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