{"id":2199,"date":"2011-11-07T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2011-11-07T11:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:56:46","slug":"the-navy%e2%80%99s-newly-updated-fire-scout-back-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/the-navy%e2%80%99s-newly-updated-fire-scout-back-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The Navy\u2019s Newly Updated Fire Scout Back In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2200\" title=\"navy\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy-342x342.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/navy.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>America\u2019s single combat casualty in Libya had no weapon for defending itself when it was shot down a heavy anti-aircraft weapon in late June. But that\u2019s about to change.<\/p>\n<p>After spending the last couple of months pursuing pirates in the Indian Ocean, watching over troops in Afghanistan, and soaring into a pro-regime stronghold in Libya, the U.S. Navy\u2019s Fire Scout robotic helicopter is set to start test-firing rockets. By the end of next year, the drone will be totally weaponized, and ready to shoot back if it gets attacked.<\/p>\n<p>It is one more step forward for the Fire Scout, the once star-crossed robo-copter that\u2019s rapidly becoming a favorite tool of the Navy, despite years of uneven history and despite a newly released Pentagon test report which said the drone was missing its missions as often as it was completing them.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen months from now, if all goes according to plan, the Fire Scout is going to be once again on combat missions, this time, completely armed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s single combat casualty in Libya had no weapon for defending itself when it was shot down a heavy anti-aircraft weapon in late June. But that\u2019s about to change. After spending the last couple of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[685,71],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-libya","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}