Autopilot The Fire Scout with joint Tactical Radio Systems (TRS) and the US Army's Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) tactical telecommunications system components can operate as a communications node. ASTAMIDS carries multi-sensor electro-optical infrared and multi-spectral imaging systems to detect patterned surface emplaced mines, patterned recently buried mines, and randomly scattered mines. 2009 6 hours on-station at 110 miles from launch site 600 pounds 20,000 125 The air vehicle is fitted with 1.75m skids. Fire Scout uses a conventional autonomous launch and recovery and can operate from unprepared sites close to battlefield command posts and operations centres.