{"id":12090,"date":"2011-07-29T01:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12090"},"modified":"2011-07-25T01:21:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T06:21:18","slug":"report-single-keystroke-almost-destroys-uav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/29\/report-single-keystroke-almost-destroys-uav\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Single Keystroke Almost Destroys UAV"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a bit of sensationalist headlining, a few news articles noted the Defense Department report blasting the acquisition program of the Navy’s MQ-8B <\/a>Fire Scout<\/a> <\/em>unmanned helicopter.<\/p>\n

According to a June 24 report from the Defense Department’s director of operational test and evaluation, the critical error came when the drone’s operator accidentally pressed the spacebar with a wire from his headset — launching the self-destruct mechanism on the vehicle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the articles later note, there’s no such thing as a single-button self-destruct.<\/p>\n

The report itself delivers a scathing summary of the program, noting it failed all 10 of its test flights (including the one that flew to Washington, DC<\/a>, by itself).\u00a0 Northrop Grumman took issue with some parts of the report, apparently because a hardware fix not covered by the report has eliminated most of the issues.\u00a0 A Fire Scout <\/em>also reportedly crashed in Libya<\/a>\u00a0and has been in use in Afghanistan for some time.<\/p>\n

The article concludes with perhaps the most awkwardly (or ironically) set of paired sentences:<\/p>\n

The aircraft could become a $2.8 billion program incapable of providing ground troops with time-sensitive intelligence.<\/p>\n

The Navy plans to buy up to 168 Fire Scouts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a bit of sensationalist headlining, a few news articles noted the Defense Department report blasting the acquisition program of the Navy’s MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. According to a June 24 report from the Defense Department’s director of operational test and evaluation, the critical error came when the drone’s operator accidentally pressed the spacebar with a wire from his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5285,930,2,1990,36,53],"class_list":["post-12090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-fire-scout","tag-military","tag-mq-8b","tag-navy","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}