Autopilot
The Fire Scout with joint Tactical Radio Systems (TRS) and the US Army's Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) tactical telecommunications system components can operate as a communications node.
ASTAMIDS carries multi-sensor electro-optical infrared and multi-spectral imaging systems to detect patterned surface emplaced mines, patterned recently buried mines, and randomly scattered mines.
2009
6 hours on-station at 110 miles from launch site
600 pounds
20,000
125
The air vehicle is fitted with 1.75m skids. Fire Scout uses a conventional autonomous launch and recovery and can operate from unprepared sites close to battlefield command posts and operations centres.