US Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout Drone Crashes Into Littoral Combat Ship USS Charleston On Deployment

Sailors charge the battery of an MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle aboard Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18), March 27, 2021. (Adam Butler/U.S. Navy)  

USNI News: MQ-8B Fire Scout Crashes Into Littoral Combat Ship USS Charleston On Deployment 

An MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into the side of Littoral Combat Ship USS Charleston (LCS-18) after taking off from the ship today, the Navy announced. 

The rotary-wing UAV was operating from the ship around 9:40 a.m. when the collision happened in the Western Pacific, according to a U.S. 3rd Fleet news release. 

The UAV fell into the sea and was not recovered, the release reads.  

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WNU Editor: It is not the first time that US Navy drones like this one have crashed .... Fire Scout drone crashes at California base (Navy Times). 

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Unmanned Helicopter Crashes into Navy Ship, Damaging Hull -- AP 

Fire Scout unmanned helicopter crashes into ship in western Pacific, Navy says -- San Diego Union Tribune  

US Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout Drone Crashes into Ship -- Defenseworld



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