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K-MAX douses its first fire

12th December 2014 - 13:44 GMT | by Daniel Tye

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K-MAX has already proven itself providing logistics support in Afghanistan and now the UAS has demonstrated its potential for fire-fighting.

Lockheed Martin, which builds K-MAX, told Unmanned Vehicles at Euronaval in October that it would carry out a fire dousing exercise and this went ahead on 18 November at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. 

The aircraft was fitted with a custom-made Bambi Bucket and successfully lifted and dropped more than 659l of water to extinguish a small fire in an oil drum on the base. 

The exercise also proved the concept of Lockheed Martin’s ‘fire-seeking’ UAS called Indago

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Daniel Tye

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Daniel Tye is a former editor of Unmanned Vehicles and International Maritime & Port Security …

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