Three MQ-8B Fire Scouts deploy to U.S. Central Command Posted on April 21, 2011 by alert5 Three MQ-8B Fire Scouts were deployed to U.S. Central Command on Apr. 13 on board a C-17. This is the type’s first land-based deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Kelly Schindler Related posts (Automatically Generated): Fire Scout going blue water for first time EMALS launches first aircraft USN seeks to buy 28 Super Hornets for FY2012 Taiwan to test missiles again GAU-21 deploys with UH-1Y Fire-X achieves first ‘power-on’