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Fire Scout radar to serve as forward spotter for Navy surface ships
Northrop Grumman-built U.S. Navy MQ-8C Fire Scout unman-ned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are set to be upgraded with a Leonardo Osprey 30 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar and Link 16 data link, the combination of which will allow the UAV to distribute air-to-air and surface targeting information to ships in a surface action group.