The MQ-8 Fire Scout: America's Unmanned Robot Helicopter
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Wait this was uploaded 25 minutes ago but this comment says 1 hour ago.
The F-15 is a perfect mega project
Why have you got 40 different channels covering similar topics?
@@Blastoice if he only had one channel, he would only have me as a single subscriber... but with multiple channels, he has me as at least 8 subscribers. Besides, why have one of anything, when you can have 8 or 22?
@@Blastoice because he likes money, more channels means more reach to more viewers and ads
Megaprojects idea: The floating airport of Kansai
I love kansai airport. It's a marvel
yes, i love that place.. earthquake proof !!!!! and great beautiful architect, clean and nice!! flew into many many times!!! love it !
Yes. Simon. Please do this!
this sounds great.
@@megaprojects9649 Much love Simon! By the way I live a few hours from Prague so we should grab a coffee some time! :o) I promise I will make it as weird as possible.
The autonomous fighter drone program for the US Mil is called Skyborg. They are just daring the future to happen.
There’s also an AI company called cyberdyne
As long as it isn't called Skynet...🤣
@@rolandoscar1696 Skynet is the program, the AI; Cyberdyne is the company who built it :)
I worked at Creech AFB and the Air Force had a system called Skynet, they use it to track all aircraft.
thats very cool
"I'm certainly not suggesting that these unarmed autonomous helicopters are a precursor to the end of the world...but they are"
On the bright side, poor armour.....
I'll never understand this obsession people have to automate everything. I enjoy driving a car, it's an experience I don't want to be taken away from me just because some Zuckerberg type has decided that's what I need.
Um, they can't arm or refuel themselves...
@@mn815048 Yet… DUN DUN DUN
@@BillClinton228 I still drive stick.
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Unmanned aerial vehicles
2:55 - Chapter 2 - Technology
4:15 - Chapter 3 - The RQ pioneer
5:15 - Mid roll ads
6:40 - Chapter 4 - Early development of the MQ8
8:15 - Chapter 5 - Rebirth
9:10 - Chapter 6 - The MQ8B fire scout
10:55 - Chapter 7 - Operational history
13:05 - Chapter 8 - The MQ8C
14:25 - Chapter 9 - The future
Want to know what happened to flying "cars"?
Look at how people drive current cars. There'd be a car in every roof lmfao
thats what I always say, I dont even trust the morons on the road not to try to kill me, why do I want them flying over my house?
If they become commonplace, flying cars will be set on predetermined routes and automated, not manually controlled.
There are plenty of private planes yet somehow most of them manage to miss hitting my house. If the regular old car were invented today, no one would be allowed to use it either, we've traded liberty for the false promise of security and thereby become technologically paralyzed by our own cowardice. There should be an aircraft in every middle class driveway.
And considering how long it took to solve the issue of mid-air collisions... Can you imagine if there were 10's of thousands of terrible drivers in the air at any one time??
And a pot on every chicken!
I was picturing fire scout as wildfire suppression. Any pilot will tell you how dangerous flying near one of those is. An unmanned option would be fantastic. (One capable of dropping fire retardant; but also drones that can find wildfires quickly and alert help before rampancy)
Exactly my thought. Wouldn't it be marvelous to have an eye in the sky close to a wildfire that wouldn't endanger the life of a pilot? If it would hold station it wouldn't get in the way of water bombers either. Instructions for the bombers could be radioed from dispatch via the drone.
Your wish is granted!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drones_in_wildfire_management
For example: "In the year 2008, NASA's Ikhana unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was used in the battle against more than 300 wildfires raging in California. Matrice 600 (M600) was used during the Woodbury Fire on June 8, 2019, about 5 miles northwest of Superior, Arizona."
Do the Chrysler T-8 nuclear tank!!
TV-8
@@fernandoqueirozpopovic7024 close e-fucking-nough
Close only counts with shaves and hand grenades.
@@richardmillhousenixoni know, but there are many tanks with just the T- (number). So it's not a correction it's a addition
@@fernandoqueirozpopovic7024 If they just said T-8 i would agree. But the fact that they specified nuclear tank, and AFAIK there has only been one nuclear tank concept that has been even taken remotely seriously, means that even if a T-8 is an actual tank specification, if you search T-8 nuclear tank, it would give you the TV-8
@4:05 Reminds me of Wile E. Coyote's many Acme purchases that backfired.
I remember that the original animated movie Ghost In The Shell featured an unmanned aerial drone copter that resembled this vehicle.
Love that series
It should be a compound helicopter. A Cheyenne like drone.
Personally we all know drones will be the feature in many vehicles. Humans are also expensive to maintain.
Looking at the XM-8 project I'd be surprised if the resemblance were pure coincidence.
I'm thinking a group of these with a full sized helo, working as an anti-submarine hunter killer group. Arm them with some sort of air dropped weapon, like the sort of projectile launched by an ASW mortar. (they're relatively light, so you could carry several AND the sonar type gear.) The helo would have torpedoes, and could use an active dipping sonar or sonobouys to spot, and then "herd".a sub towards the FireScouts. Who could drop their ordnance right on top of it.
Moving the fight way away from surface ships. Or just adding another layer to a fleet's ASW defenses.
even the least expensive civil drones can fly themselves home when the battery reaches a certain level or if they fly out of range of the controller. (i did fx work on the stallone dredd movie!).
What are your thoughts on how the movie turned out?
Still hoping to see Denver International Airport! The second largest airport in the world by land (though tbh King Fahd shouldn’t count since it has a third of the runways as DIA!)). It’s one of the busiest in the world and has some of the more unique architecture and interior design among airports.
This is attempt 4 I think. At least in recent memory, since I know I've asked for this before.
Not sure if it should be here or on Geographics though. Jeppensen would be a decent Biographics companion too since the terminal is named after him.
It is really cool!
It was USS Wisconsin's drone they surrendered to. It's now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
Hi John from WI. My Cousin was in the Navy in 1964 on a Destroyer. They had one of the early Drones on it. Great idea. Except that allot of times when you sent it out, it never came back. Somewhere out there in the wide Pacific there is an Island that is loaded with drones. Somewhat like, The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Just one more thing. The US Drone - AAI RQ-Pioneer looks exactly like the German (WWII) Glider A Ku-7
(See Picture Wikipedia - List of World War II military gliders)
I was onboard the Nashville during those landings - pretty cool event to watch from the flight deck camera!
This is the representation I live for. My father used to fix the Pioneer and later Shadow, and I flew the Shadow during out stints in the Army
Do the Chinese's absolutely god awful aircraft carrier next
They went with foreign hulls to develop doctrine and policy. They then went to domestically produced hulls to develop capability. Compare them with the first generation of American, British, or Japanese aircraft carriers and the Chinese look good. Another decade and their next generation may be as good as the "Queen Elizabeth". At least theirs are operational, unlike the "Gerald Ford".
@@jeffreypierson2064 You mean the British hyped carrier that transports in peace time as many planes a Japanese helicopter carrier?
Megaprojects idea: Simon's collarbone.
All jokes aside, I hope you a complete and speedy recovery. That's one bone I havent broken...yet...
Keep up the solid work, friend.
14:44 Dude, autopilot. Already here.
Megaproject idea: japanese I-400 aircraft carrier submarine.
The I400 design directly inspired the fictional submarine aircraft carrier Blue Noah. It's a detail lost on most people because they don't know about the I400.
Would the internet itself be considered a megaproject?
No
He sort of already made an episode about the internet, although it was the original name ARPAnet that he gave the episode.
Simon has covered this in a video on one of the sites. Not sure which one.
No, a series of small parts not a single Megaproject
i love the synth audio bumpers. such a sweet lil touch.
Project Idea: East Africa Locust Swarm Control and Eradication efforts. Truly "biblical" in size, scope and impact upon food production within the region.
Back then biblical wasn't very big.... The image you have for biblical probably is over excessively inflated. For whatever reason,
Can I suggest a Side Projects on the APKWS? It's a laser guidance package that is literally just screwed onto the body of a Hydra rocket...unscrew the warhead, screw on the guidance module, screw the warhead to the front of the module and viola, a laser guided rocket. No need to modify the launcher. Death from above has never BEEN more practical.
Suggestions for future videos.
Us Marine Corp's unmanned K-Max, one the most bizarre looking helicopters around (it has two inter-meshing main rotors that look like an eggbeater)
US Navy's QH-50 DASH, the anti submarine helicopter drone from the 1960's. Also pretty bizarre looking it had coaxial main rotors and no tail boom.
Your channels are one of the few i always search for a good video to watch while i eat lunch.
Just sayyin.
This was excellent research material.
Glad you're having fun doing your thing.
The beard!!! It's glorious!
So as someone who hasn't driven in 16 years, all cars are self driving. It's not that bad.
I needed that laugh
i was joking that my pal's tesla moonlights for uber when he's asleep. i think it'll take him to the beach one day whether he wants to go or not.
can we perhaps have one done on the B-36? an absolutely massive plane with origins pre US Entry into WW2 and still the largest wingspan of a Bomber to date with 230 feet so 70 meters there are LIFE magazine photos of it sitting next to a B-17, B-29, and a C-47 and the differences for a plane that had its origins pre WW2 US Entry is absolutely amazing on another note you could use what it competed against the YB-35 and later on the YB-49 Jack Northrop's Flying Wing Designs that are the origins to the B-2 design pretty much
I'm waiting for the battalion's of ED209's to replace human armies on the ground with that iconic 10 seconds to comply and all hell breaks loose.
errr. we had a handheld drone go down over Syria, in 2005... While we were deployed to Iraq.. The importance and push for us to recover our handheld platoon drone, was extreme..a lot of people were a bit upset..lmao-
It landed in the back yard of a lady who did laundry.. 20 meters over the berm, thank goodness were recovered it under 12 hours. Was a crazy time being a platoon Sargent knowing my Marine, truly did not do it on purpose, the high winds took it, and the gps failed. . we watched it drift, it slow motion silent shock... I refused to use one ever since during that deployment.. amazing what they can do though.. those drones are amazing. unguided gps camera night and day etc.. amazing things. launched with a rubber band. a great assest to find bad guys hiding though.. and burying IEDs.. truly good to use.. saves lives.
Lithuanian annotated map! 4:48 How cool is that lol
Keep up the fine work. Can you consider a show on the various jet fuels so often mentioned (e.g. jp4), their history, and their uses?
Dude, that closer, though. Someone was feeling their muse on that one. Heh, so much so that its poetry was a touch out of place on this otherwise very pragmatic episode.
Cool to see you cover this. My grandfather worked on the fire scout before he passed away.
I love your transitions - You should consider running an on-line course in how to develop an effective segue!
Great job Simon
Thanks again Simon for another great video. And yeah, as an 80's baby, what we were lead to believe our future would be has been a disappointment. I want my hoverboard and flying car! And I hope SKYNET doesn't become a thing with the rise of UAV's! 😑 Instead of using exclusively for military use, these should also be adapted for remote rescue operations.
I remember Avery Brooks (the actor who portrayed Captain Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space 9) was featured in commercials demanding to know where are the flying cars. Good question!
I like your videos so calming, a Drone that is the closest thing to sky net soo calming:)
Would love to see a megaprojects on the Mackinaw Bridge!
Simon, I want to compliment your research folks. I appreciate the depth and detail, and know the time it takes to gather and form it. You all have sent me on many tangents and deeper dives. Thank you from the top of my critical and curious heart LOL
At 11:27 I swear I saw a tear fall from factboi's eye when he said the drone stopped a coke run...
At 4:47 the map is annotated in Lithuanian. Had to do a triple-take, lol.
Gave a thumbs-up for the Dredd reference. There is a solid trove of futuristic dystopian inspiration right there.
Prior to the Fire Scout was the radio controlled DASH unmanned helicopter that the Navy tried to use in the late 60's/early 70's. It was a system too far ahead of it's time and was dropped in favor of the manned SH-2F LAMPS helo (that I spend many years maintaining) then the SH-60B and MH-60R. Unless things have changed, the MQ-8's are operated alongside the MH-60R's in HSM squadrons.
I'm still waiting for the worlds largest drydock.
that ship has sailed :)
@@HarryNicNicholas I see what you did there. Simon once joked in one of his first MegaProjects videos that he would do the Worlds Largest Drydock. I don't think he will actually do it, but I have to bring it up as much as possible, because it makes me laugh my 4ss off.
I'm not sure if I prefer my glorious overlords to be human or machine.
Machines for sure. They'll be waaaay more morally consistent and won't be weighed down with historical, cultural, and religious baggage. Sure, they might be sociopathic killers, but at least you won't die for something as silly as believing in the wrong sky-god.
Good stuff 👌
Side projects idea: the different launch systems of aircraft carriers. The electromagnetic one looks to be rather interesting!
Megaprojects Idea: Egypt's new admin capital
Drones like the MQ-9 Reaper are the real life aerial Hunter Killers from Terminator. Heck we have unmanned ground vehicles in the millitary so those are pretty much the tank Hunter Killers from Terminator.
Wow that's tough.
Don't give weapons to the machines!
like, *DON'T* !
You do not want an oopsie with _that_ ... ;D
Megaproject, excellent 👌
Great video 📹
Robotics hobbyists have been building fully autonomous model aircraft and helicopters for at least 15 years. But they aren’t armed.
Please do Bagger 293! I believe it definitely qualifies as a mega project!
How about a mega projects episode (or side projects) on the osprey aircraft? Thanks for the great channels!
I want my own personal battery-powered drone smaller than that (4-8 smaller rotors will have the same payload) that I can ride and land in regular parking lots when doing errands with a range of 100 miles per charge. Just tell it where to go and it does so on it's own. And I want it for the cost of less than a new budget car ($10-20k), get on that, before I lose patience along with my laziness and build it myself.
It's a remote controlled helicopter. We had those in the 80s. These are just bigger and have a longer range.
Megaprojects Idea: A GIGANTIC military Boondoggle is the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche. I worked at Sikorsky during the development of the RAH-66 and it was a cluster function of military bureaucracy and overengineering.
I wonder if they fixed the altitude limitations the Kiowa has in mountainous areas like Afghanistan when building the MQ-8C. The single engine left a lot to be desired and made mission planning difficult since they couldn't perform nearly as well as more powerful rotorcraft like the UH-60.
They were testing unmanned helicopters for resupply when I was in Afghanistan in 2011
A video about the french canal system would be great.
Nice work. Remember all of that UAV activity passive or aggressive is a result of human input. That is the tricky bit.
As an RC enthusiast I'd love to get my hands on one of those smaller planes.
Build it and add a GoPro.
My dad was part of the liberation of Failaka Island and remember him telling him telling me about the POW’s surrendering to the UAV. It was called Operation Saber. They took on 100’s of Iraqi POW’s with handful of Marines. Failaka Island island is still completely under control of the Kuwaiti military since 1991 and non of the residents have been able to return.
To think the MQ-8 is already old tech now, it's been operating since 2000, current gen stuff is things like the Sukhoi S-70, Northrop Grumman RQ-180 and who knows what other off the books and classified stuff.
Very cool drone wish I had one.
1:21 These unarmed autonomous helicopters... 1:36 rocket leaves the rail.
Did you see the impressive display of drones at the Olympics opening ceremony? Now imagine each one of those drones carries a nail bomb and they are hunting for you.
7 simon videos in one day. I'm so happy
No not the coke! Damit Peter!
1:02 that frame rate being nearly synced with the blades looks weird
Can you do a video on the Chinook Helicopter at some point. It's a beast and would love to see you cover that.
Megaprojects suggestion.. Can't remember off the top of my head.. Have you done the Ark Royal or Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers?
How about a video of the disastrous maiden voyage of the Swedish kings flag ship ‘Regalskeppet Vasa’ in 1628? According to legends, it sank as a result of too many elaborate gold ornaments at the stern.
Given its recently entering the spotlight, how about covering the TB2 Bayraktar?
when simon is an old man, "children, children, gather around, I need to tell you another megaprojects.."
Except Danny would have to be there to give him a script...since without his script writer Simon wouldn't have a thing to say..he's worthless without danny. These are ALL Danny's words dude
Important and very interesting.Simon say - I like.And his handsome good too.
The first RQ-8 was based on the ancient Hughes 269/300, which was sold to Schweizer. A 300 was the first helicopter I ever flew in.
Good video 👍
Posted 4m ago, you comment 2 min later, no way you actually watched it so STFU
@@MarvinWestmaas Lol it's cute that you think you're clever for doing simple math, but I only needed 2 mins to know it was a good video😎
I wonder if MQ-8's will eventually rescue Danny from the basement having destroyed the Dank Mega Beard, The Furious Knowledge Dome, Blaze Whistler Clones and their Complex? 🤔🤔🤔
You missed the QH-50 in service with the US Navy from 1962 to 1969. They may be the first operational UAV's in history.
Great stuff! How about something on the Human Genome Project and where genetics are going? And then there's the metaverse.....
Do the Apache and the variations of the hellfire missile!
Hearing a British Czech resident try to comprehend the insanity that is the United States’ DoD’s purchasing R&D procedures is quite wonderful 😂 Danny could do business blaze of US military’s strangest contracts
A really interesting uav to research would be Australia's Loyal Wingman drone. It's a fully autonomous stealth fighter that's essentially a force multiplier for F-35s by acting as parasite fighters controlled from the F-35 cockpit
if hover boards were sold on the commercial market it could in theory be reverse engineered, but more likely emergency war strategies could be guessed at and planned against
only when technologies that are ridiculously more fearsome and effective are produced, then lesser technologies like hover boards could be sold commercially
I think this is the first time you've mentioned my hometown on one of your channels. I'm originally from Moss Point, MS.
First I wanted to say I love your videos, unfortunately I only subscribe to 37 of your channels.... obviously joking, I subscribe to all 43....
PROJECT IDEA: Not sure if this is "Mega" enough, but might be a good side project. I work in the OR, and robotic surgery is a fascinating story and there are many avenues to look into. I just taught a lecture on robotics in the OR, and I could have talked for hours about it. Might be a fun story for you, but there's my two cents (Yes, I'm from the States).
Megaprojects topic: The mine in Kiruna and how they move the entire city to expand the mine further.
oh hey theres a photo taken at the 2019 Avalon airshow. I was there that year
Megaproject idea, the 401 highway in Ontario Canada. Its the most congested and the largest highway in north America. Has the worst commute times in the entire world (on average over 2 hours) with in some sections over 12 lanes wide. It's literally the best/worst highway in the world. Its just ironic given how sparse people think Canada is. Make people in Los Angeles think they are on the Autobahn
Megaproject: The Simon multiverse, all the channels simon runs/started
MegaProject idea - Jamnagar Refinery Complex
I'm going to ask again. Can I please have a Megaproject on the F22 Raptor?
fun fact, the RAF comms network is called skynet
Was expecting it to be retired since other drones are readily available
Megaprojects Idea: Deutsches Stadion Nürnberg, never built by Hitler
MQ8-C looks like a mini-Huey.