US Navy receives the first upgraded unmanned helicopter MQ-8C Fire Scout

The US Navy received the first upgraded Fire Scout MQ-8C unmanned helicopter, the Northrop Grumman development company said. Unlike the previous model MQ-8B, created on the basis of a specially designed glider, the new MQ-8C rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is based on the glider of a commercial Bell 407 helicopter equipped with a modified control system.

The MQ-8C UAV is currently preparing for a ground and flight test program. Until the first flight at the command range aviation systems of the US Navy will be tested the communication system of the device with the ground control station. In the course of the upcoming tests, the MQ-8C must be confirmed to meet the operational requirements. fleet.

The new device has three times the mass of the payload and two times longer flight duration compared to the previous version of the MQ-8B. As part of the MQ-8 unmanned system, not only the advanced MQ-8C device will be used, but also proven software, avionics, payloads and auxiliary ship systems from the MQ-8B device.

The Fire Scout MQ-8C advanced UAV was created to meet fleet requirements for flight duration and range, as well as the need to increase the payload mass, which will effectively accomplish observation and reconnaissance tasks in the interests of the naval and land command.

Currently, the MQ-8B UAV is used by the US Navy with frigates, as well as in Afghanistan as part of the Marine Corps units.
Adoption of the upgraded rotor-wing unmanned MQ-8 system with the new MQ-8C Fire Scout is planned for 2014 year.

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[Tuzik]

every day the news that we received something in the USA, so I want our news to be received, I hope to live until these bright days

[ShturmKGB]

We also get, only in silence ...

[patsantre]

Well yeahhh! Of course! About one single rook, we have 5 news each: they laid it, they build it, put it into the water, they tested it, they took it! From the smallest delivery they’ll inflate the horseradish understand that ... if only to hammer heads, there’s supposedly a lot of equipment coming in.

[shpuntik]

patsantre (2) RU Today, 14:31 ↑
From the smallest delivery, the horseradish is being inflated. Understand that ... just to hammer your heads, supposedly a lot of equipment comes in.

There is such a letter!
They choke slowly, to patriotic music ...

[LaGlobal]

ShturmKGB

We also get, only in silence ...

In-in! That's what I'm talking about. We are not shouting out what the strongest army we are in the world, we are not promoting our achievements, "they say, look what we have!" We just silently do our job!

[LaGlobal]

what kind of hamster is minus?

[Andrey58]

And communication again over the air.

[LaGlobal]

Quote: Andrey58

And communication again over the air.

I do not agree! In our army, and even more so, in the special forces, as early as the years with 10 (minimum), they have the newest connection!

As for radio communications, it seems to me that it is more reliable than digital, which any fifth grader is able to crack ...

[tirazu]

Our army, of course, it’s large and different, it’s just rode on a train with an officer from Vorkuta, their soldiers alert them by running around apartments with unrealistic time. Just like in the years of my service 1989-91 BVO Air Force.

[Spiegel]

Any digital communication not by wire is in any case radio communication. Just the data is transmitted over the air in digital packets.

[Apollo]

quote - The US Navy has received the first upgraded MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter, the Northrop Grumman development company said. Unlike the previous model MQ-8B,


created on the basis of a specially designed glider, the new rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) MQ-8C is based on the glider of a commercial helicopter

"Bell-407" (Bell 407), equipped with a modified control system.

essentially nothing new, the Americans will upgrade their UAVs.

[Vitaly Anisimov]

Yes, the States are robbing their army at a fast pace .. getting ready

[Zabvo]

Hmm ... But drones were "born" in the USSR, it's a shame.

[sub307]

And not only "drones".

[Professor]

Quote: ZABVO

Hmm ... But drones were "born" in the USSR, it's a shame.

Yah? Enlighten us.

[JonnyT]

Quote: ZABVO

But drones were "born" in the USSR, it's a shame

Are you sure?

The first unmanned vehicles were created by a military engineer Charles Kettering, with the financial support of the United States, The Kettering Aerial Torpedo, Kettering Bug, which were supposed to be actually winged bombs, which, by the clock mechanism, shot off the wings and fell on the target. Things didn’t go further than model testing [1]. The first non-reusable UAV was developed by the British in the 1933 year. The development was given the name Queen Bee. In total, three UAVs were created on the basis of the Fairy Queen biplane, radio control was carried out from the ship, two avarats crashed during the tests, the third made a successful flight. This is considered the first successful experience in creating a UAV [1]. During World War II, the US Navy in 1944 used B-17 remotely controlled aircraft, which were used for air raids on German submarine bases [1].
Today, various UAVs are manufactured and designed with dimensions not exceeding large birds, to full-size aircraft with a practical ceiling of up to 25 km, the United States is the world leader in UAV production, Israel is in second place, and Britain is in third place.

[Stiletto]

Yes, when American brains are armed with drones, this is not good.

[Muadipus]

THEM is not where to go. The Yankees are so fattened that these Zhirtrests, in principle, cannot fulfill the functions of war (fighters). Here they are developing the UAV.
I am more worried that the Yankees do not start doing PBLA with artificial intelligence. Then the movie "Terminator" will become a reality.

[patsantre]

Already doing ......

[ataker_pra]

For every American drone there is its own anti-missile from S400

[Muadipus]

It's a little expensive to spend a s-400 missile on an UAV. Their needles.

[Homo]

Easier Iranian hackers!

[HAM]

Russian "lovers of free radio", or, more simply, radio hooligans, blocked the secret channels of the British Air Force, there was a lot of screaming, therefore, you need to work with drones - they are convenient for flying fishing.

[LaGlobal]

Quote: Andrey58

And communication again over the air.

Think of the movie "Die Hard 4", where hackers attack the main nodes of the country. Everything has been set there for a long time. And we still have analogues (so what), but no one hacks!

[Andrey58]

The figure is also transmitted over the air. I mean that there is no know-how in these UAVs. No matter how they are cheated, they still remain radio-controlled models. Until they come up with a fundamentally new noise-protected communication channel based on other physical principles, this technique cannot be fully used in the war against a serious opponent.

[Andrey Peter]

By itself, a drone (like an aircraft) is not difficult to create, and we already have them. As I understand, we have problems with electronics and software, especially at long distances. But given that our programmers have smart heads if they want and financial support, we can not only catch up. but also overtake. At least I want to hope so

[Starover_Z]

But are they not trying to assemble a pulsed high-power interference generator for the remote destruction of electronics on UAVs?
A drone appears, whirls, the roof of a cargo-van-taxi van and bursts of impulses open into it, like from a DShK! And the bird falls ...

[ataker_pra]

Quote: Muadipus

It's a little expensive to spend a s-400 missile on an UAV. Their needles.

Probably not a single drone will pass by S400, the guarantee is so to speak)) A little expensive, but reliable) It is possible to bring down needles, and S300 must cope with this miracle of a flyer))

[Professor]

Quote: ataker_pra

Probably not a single drone will pass by S400, the guarantee is so to speak)) A little expensive, but reliable) It is possible to bring down needles, and S300 must cope with this miracle of a flyer))

Welcome to the site.
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In the same Abkhazian direction, Georgian drones regularly flew over the positions of our troops, and in most cases we had to put up with this. These Israeli-made Hermes UAVs circled the paratrooper camp for hours with impunity for hours because military air defense systems “didn’t take them”: ZU-23 anti-aircraft missiles didn’t penetrate, and MANPADS did not fly due to insufficient heat radiation from drones.

[Lopatov]

Quote: professor

ZU-23 anti-aircraft installations did not fire, and MANPADS missiles did not fly due to insufficient thermal radiation from drones.

... and we did not take "Arrows 10" because of our own carelessness

[Professor]

Quote: Spade

.a "Arrows 10" we did not take because of our own carelessness

What prevented the paratroopers in half a year from bringing this 40 prodigy of summer age to Abkhazia?

[Lopatov]

They are constantly being upgraded, and the current one is very different from the old one.

What hindered? Already wrote: disorderlessness.

[Professor]

Quote: Spade

They are constantly being upgraded, and the current one is very different from the old one.

and the modernized type is capable of detecting a "plastic" drone? Share the performance characteristics, pliz.

[Beck]

Fundamental to the creation of drones was the unwillingness to put their soldiers at risk. And here everything else is wound up to this.

[Andrey58]

Quote: professor

These Israeli-made Hermes UAVs circled the paratrooper camp for hours with impunity for hours because the air defense forces “didn’t take them”: the ZU-23 anti-aircraft missiles didn’t penetrate, and the MANPADS did not fly due to insufficient heat radiation from the drones.

The S-300 topic has not been disclosed. IMHO, the emergence of UAVs, in particular "small" ones, on which it is a pity to spend missiles, will give a new impetus to the development of portable air defense systems and barreled anti-aircraft artillery, which were scrapped after World War II. You need something like "Luftfaust", store-bought and with a cheap rocket.

[Andrey58]

Quote: professor

In the same Abkhazian direction, Georgian drones regularly flew over the positions of our troops, and in most cases we had to put up with this. These Israeli-made Hermes UAVs circled the paratrooper camp for hours with impunity for hours because military air defense systems “didn’t take them”: ZU-23 anti-aircraft missiles didn’t penetrate, and MANPADS did not fly due to insufficient heat radiation from drones.

But the MiGs did a good job.

[Professor]

Quote: Andrey58

But the MiGs did a good job.

"Cope" is said loudly on the basis of a single case repeatedly denied by Russia.

[Andrey58]

Was a socially beneficial result achieved?

[Andrey Peter]

Or create a drone to destroy drones. Here will be an interesting picture above the battlefield, but the fighters will not die

[Andrey Peter]

And if for serious reasons, Bepilots can only be used against small groups in local conflicts. Large connections are always covered and to shoot down the UAV grab the Top or Shilka.

[shpuntik]

So what shall we do, comrade patriots? No one knows? Okay, I’ll go and put a candle behind the repose of a star-striped state.
In the meantime: we are waiting for the analogue of our "Gorby" and "Eltsin" to come to power in the USA, they will ruin everything to the mothers of dogs, and all technologies will "float away" to us.
And, still not bad - for a fair comparison, for the United States: one war with Iran, then a civil war between states, then a war with China, and then we compare who produced what first.
It's me, to those disputes - which is higher. Let's be objective: what the USSR and then Russia did in the 20th century, these successes were incredible because of the most severe conditions in which these countries were.
Therefore, Russia: "respect and respect", anyway.

[Black]

Quote: ataker_pra

For every American drone there is its own anti-missile from S400

Quote: Muadipus

It's a little expensive to spend a s-400 missile on an UAV. Needles and

Quote: Homo

Easier Iranian hackers!

Quote: Spade

We did not take "Arrows 10"

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Not that, comrades, not that! There is a toothy offer.

Quote: shpuntik

So what shall we do, comrade patriots? No one knows? Okay, I'll go and put a candle

But just in what place should I put a candle in the fight against drones?

[ataker_pra]

Quote: professor

Quote: ataker_pra

Probably not a single drone will pass by S400, the guarantee is so to speak)) A little expensive, but reliable) It is possible to bring down needles, and S300 must cope with this miracle of a flyer))

Welcome to the site.
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In the same Abkhazian direction, Georgian drones regularly flew over the positions of our troops, and in most cases we had to put up with this. These Israeli-made Hermes UAVs circled the paratrooper camp for hours with impunity for hours because military air defense systems “didn’t take them”: ZU-23 anti-aircraft missiles didn’t penetrate, and MANPADS did not fly due to insufficient heat radiation from drones.

The conflict with Georgia was in 2008, then in our army there was still no serious air defense. This time. Secondly, I did not find real facts that Georgian drones flew over our territory, and such that are represented - you can get 10 pieces in a minute.
In any case, now we are much stronger than in the 2008th. Now, no one will even have the idea to direct the drone with impunity in our direction.

[SPBOBL]

Fresh target ...