NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy is developing a new mine countermeasure (MCM) sensor suite for the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned autonomous helicopter that will enable the unmanned aerial system (UAS) to find and localize mines and obstacles on land and at sea.
Back at the beginning of March, we learned of a new capability on the verge of being added to the MQ-8C Fire Scout: mine detection. Fast forward a couple.
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The Single System Multi-Mission Airborne Mine Detection pod will be the first minehunting pod used on the Fire Scout and the heaviest payload it has carried.