Posted by Java Joe on April 29, 2021 · Leave a Comment
An MQ-8B Fire Scout UAV crashed upon deployment into the littoral combat ship USS Charleston and fell into the sea. It was not recovered.
Category Lex Park News, Morning Coffee · Tags Coli Kahl, Fire Scout, Frank Kenndall, Gina Ortiz Jones, Kendall, MQ-8B, Roger Wicker, Shipyard Act, USMC GEN Kenneth McKenzie, Vandenberg Air Force Base
Posted by Java Joe on February 4, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The US Navy’s first female jet pilot, Rosemary Mariner, died last week. She was 65.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags F-25, Ford-class carrier, Littoral Combat Ships, MQ-8B, MQ-8C Fire Scout, NAWCAD, Northrop Grumman, Rosemary Mariner, suicide, Tornado fleet, US Mexico Border
Posted by Three Oaks Center on February 23, 2015 · Leave a Comment
Development milestones upcoming for NAVAIR UAS programs: Triton, MQ-8B, and Blackjack.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags 3 Oaks, 3 Oaks Center, Blackjack, homeless vets, MQ-8B, NAVAIR, patents, Three Oaks, Three Oaks Center, Three Oaks Homeless Shelter, Triton
Posted by Java Joe on September 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The unmanned MQ-4C Triton aircraft’s improved reliability could lead the Navy to buy fewer of the UAVs than the 68 it now has on order.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Boeing, CDP Climate Leadership Indices, Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, F-35A, Liquid Robotics, Lockheed Martin, Maritime Surveillance, Microsoft cloud email, military sexual assault, MQ-4C Triton, MQ-8B, Syria airstrikes, Tricare, USS Coronado, USS Fort Worth
Posted by Java Joe on November 7, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Initial damage estimate for Webster Field MQ-8B Fire Scout “hard landing” is at least $2 million.
Category Leader Features, Morning Coffee · Tags Advanced Super Hornet, CIA, drone, E2 Hawkeye, F/A-18 Super Hornet, FCLP, fire resistant coveralls, hard landing, MQ-4C, MQ-8B, Northrop Grumman, slogan, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, Triton, Webster Field Annex
Posted by Editor on October 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
China’s entry into the aircraft carrier club could change the balance of power in the Pacific.
Category Morning Coffee · Tags Atlantic Test Ranges, China, contracts, Fire Scout, GPS, Joint Land Use Study, Lockheed Martin, MQ-8B, NAVAIR, Northrop Grumman, sequestration, Somerset County, Super Hornet, Toys for Tots, wind farm
Posted by Editor on September 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Maintenance and operations officers from Northrop Grumman recently became government employees.
Posted by Editor on August 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Engineers at Webster Field have identified problems with the Fire Scout unmanned helicopter and plan to arm it with rockets.
Posted by Editor on May 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Report also notes that the P-8A Poseidon program is eight weeks behind schedule.
Category Leader Features, Pax River News · Tags DT&E report, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, Ed Greer, Fire Scout, MQ-8B, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, P-8A Poseidon, Pax River, Pentagon, testing
Posted by Editor on April 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment
It may have trouble landing at times, but the Fire Scout unmanned helicopter can apparently float until fished out of the water.
Category Leader Features, Pax River News · Tags Capt. Patrick Smith, Fire Scout, MQ-8B, MQ-8C, Navy League, PEO(U&W), PMA-266, Rear Adm. Bill Shannon, Sea-Air-Space, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation