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A P-3C crew from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division launched, took control of, and recovered a Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff unmanned aerial vehicle for the first time during a fortyfive minute technical demonstration at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, on 19 December. The P-3 crew fully controlled the UAV and its sensors, and vectored the Fire Scout to a simulated target where it fed streaming video back. The Orion then relayed the motion video from the Fire Scout, along with video gathered from its own onboard electro-optical sensor, to a ground station. This rebroadcast of sensor data from a UAV to a ground station demonstrated a key network-centric communications concept.
Fire Scout Photo By Kurt Lengfield
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