Grounding (And The Spending) Navy Drone Copters

An MQ-8B Fire Scout drone copter lands on the U.S.S. McInerney after helping a counternarcotics mission in 2010. Photo: U.S. Southern Command

Navy Grounds Drone Copters, Then Spends Quarter-Billion To Buy More -- Danger Room

Just weeks after the Navy grounded its favorite fleet of unmanned spy copters, the admirals announced that they’re spending another quarter-billion dollars to buy even more of the drones.

Manufacturer Northrop Grumman will get $262,336,248 to provide the Navy with six MQ-8B Fire Scout copters and test two more. The single-sourced contract comes two weeks after the Navy put the drone helos on an indefinite timeout after discovering what it described as “two unrelated operational mishaps.”

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