TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $17.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for system software and engineering services in support of the MQ-8 Fire Scout ...

It looks like a helicopter, but there's no one in the cockpit, and that's exactly the point. The MQ-8 Fire Scout is the U.S. Navy's unmanned eye in the sky, designed to take off, land, and fly all on ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Navy successfully flew the unmanned MQ-8B Fire Scout simultaneously with the MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter for the first time. The capability ...

The Navy’s Fire Scout unmanned helicopter has conducted a wide variety of reconnaissance missions around the globe, and now the service plans to arm it with a 70mm laser-guided rocket system to engage ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A larger and more powerful version of Northrop Grumman Corp's Fire Scout unmanned helicopter made its first two flights on Thursday, the U.S. Navy said as it plans to start ...

The Northrop Grumman Corporation built MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter surpassed 5,000 flight hours while providing critical surveillance capabilities to field commanders in Afghanistan. Since ...

The U.S. military is keenly interested in employing unmanned aerial vehicles to support cargo delivery and this has touched off a scramble among defense contractors to position themselves to win ...

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) a $135.8 million modification to a previously awarded contract for the Fire Scout vertical ...

The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that Northrop Grumman (NOC) MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical takeoff and landing Tactical Unmanned Air Vehicle (VTUAV) has reached Milestone C, signifying the ...

<P> In what the Navy is calling a historic moment, the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter deployed last week to the USS McInerney, a frigate headed to the Pacific Ocean for a drug interdiction ...

The MQ-8C Fire Scout has been tested for a variety of purposes, such as mine countermeasures (MCM), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and communications relay. The U.S. Navy is moving to expand its ...