Monthly Archives: December 2014

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  Osprey Fires Guided Rockets And Missiles In New Trials

  Posted on December 9, 2014 by Shakari Linder in Uncategorized.

  After turning the Lockheed Martin KC-130 Hercules into an armed reconnaissance platform, now the U.S. Marine Corps wants to do the same with its fleet of V-22 Osprey tiltrotors. With the Corps’ new mantra of putting a sensor and weapon on every one of its aerial platforms in order to achieve digital interoperability, the tiltrotor’s […]

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  NGC Delivers 1st Operational MQ-8C Fire Scout to the US Navy

  Posted on December 5, 2014 by Shakari Linder in Northrop Grumman.

  Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has delivered the first operational MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter to the U.S. Navy. The system will be used by ship-based commanders to improve the Navy’s intelligence-gathering capabilities. The MQ-8C is an upgraded version of the existing MQ-8B Fire Scout using a larger airframe. It can fly nearly twice as long […]

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