[SatNews] A Navy Fire Scout UAV system has been shipped to the Central Command operating area to support Army and coalition forces in Afghanistan, the Navy announced Thursday.
The system, under development by the Naval Air Systems Command to operate from ships, will be land-based inCENTCOM for about a year. TheFire Scouts will provide hundreds of hours of full motion video NAVAIR said in a press release, in support of the Pentagon’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance task force. A wide variety of UAVs have been deployed over Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in CENTCOM since at least 2003, performing high-, medium- and low-altitude missions ranging from surveillance to strike. Most of the drones are fixed-wing, while the Fire Scout is a small helicopter able to stay aloft more than eight hours, fly at altitudes up to about 17,000 feet and travel about 115 knots. Each Fire Scout system consists of up to three MQ-8B aircraft, at least one ground control station, and other hardware.
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