U.S. Navy’s unmanned helicopter complete test aboard new Expeditionary Sea Base
by Dylan Malyasov
06:14 (GMT+0000) April 13, 2020
The Navy’s newest unmanned helicopter, the MQ-8C Fire Scout, completed the first dynamic interface testing aboard Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) Hershel “Woody†Williams.
The Naval Air Systems Command said that this event marked the first time Fire Scout operated from an ESB-class ship opening up opportunities for future deployments.
The Williams was built at a cost of about $500 million in 2017, and is the second of three Expeditionary Sea Base ships built for the Navy by a private sector company. The new ship was commissioned on March 7, 2020.
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