Speaking of the United States’ strong military strength, it is the occasional crashes that cover up. Although the U.S. military crashes too frequently and most military fans are accustomed to them, crashes often occur, and the entire fleet is grounded. Not often.
According to the Indian media Eurasia Times, two newly manufactured MQ-8C unmanned helicopters developed by Northrop Grumman, the "king of naval and air weapons" in the United States, had two serious accidents within a week. The U.S. Navy grounded its entire fleet.
It is reported that the first incident occurred on November 10, when a California investigator crashed while landing in the US Navy Marine Corps. Six days later, another fire investigator was outside the Maryland Navy. There was another serious accident. Although the two accidents did not cause casualties, they were all classified as Class A accidents by the United States, which means that the losses of each accident of the US military reached more than 2.5 million US dollars.
The picture shows the MQ-8C
two serious accidents occurred within a week. What kind of reason would the US military ground the entire team?
It’s worth mentioning that it’s already December, but the U.S. military suddenly decided to ground the entire fleet. Although the U.S. Navy did not disclose the reason for the grounding of all unmanned helicopters this time, the underlying reasons are worth taking a good look at. Analyze.
This MQ-8C unmanned helicopter is the next generation of automatic helicopters in the United States. For commercial reasons, this helicopter has now produced a total of more than 1,600, with a flight time of more than 4.4 million hours. The main purpose is to provide functions such as intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance for the US Navy. The maximum speed can reach 135kts and the navigation time is 12 hours. It is currently deployed on coastal combat ships.
Generally speaking, when one or two aircraft fail, most of them are damaged parts, worn out, or lack of technology, and poor maintenance. Like India, no matter how many crashes they crash, they rarely ground the entire fleet. So the grounding of the entire fleet of the United States this time must be related to aircraft performance, and it is more likely that the quality of this batch of MQ-8C unmanned helicopters has problems.
The picture shows MQ-8C
. For example, in 2010, during the flight of MQ-9B, the console lost control of her, which caused her to fly into restricted airspace. Then the U.S. report on the conclusion of the accident was " Software abnormal". In other words, this control system is problematic. Z2z
also has a very coincidental opinion. The MQ-8C that had an accident on November 16 failed during landing, although the US military concluded that the problem was caused by the pilot's slow response. But this is almost the same as the accident of an MQ-9B drone on August 14. It was also caused by a problem with the main rotor, which caused it to crash into the building and crash. It was even coincident with this accident and crashed at the same time. One base, same building.
From this point of view, the control systems of the US military's series of unmanned helicopters are likely to have very serious problems, so the US military will ground the entire fleet of unmanned helicopters. After all, it is impossible for a general accident to ground the entire fleet. After all, whether it is a pilot, training, or performing daily tasks, the losses caused by the grounding are very serious. (Tu Su)
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