US Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scouts fly into retirement just two years after entering operational service

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Source: Northrop Grumman

US Navy (USN) budget documents reveal that the service plans to retire the newest variant of an unmanned helicopter it spent more than a decade and nearly $1.5 billion developing.

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