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The RQ-7 Shadow is the result of a continued US Army search for an effective battlefield UAS after the cancellation of the Alliant RQ-6 Outrider aircraft. AAI Corporation followed up their RQ-2 Pioneer with the Shadow 200, a similar, more refined UAS. In late 1999, the army selected the Shadow 200 to fill the tactical UAS requirement ...
AAV-7: United States: Armoured personnel carrier: Amphibious armoured personnel carrier (AAV-7A1) 1,200 To be replaced by ACV. Recovery (AAVRA1) 60 Self-propelled artillery M142 HIMARS: United States: Rocket artillery: Armoured M142 HIMARS 47 Only FMTV use in USMC [7] Transport vehicles MTVR: United States: Transport vehicle
AAI was developing an RQ-7 Shadow, also with a Carter rotor on top for vertical take-off and landing, [10] [11] to fly in 2012. [12] AAI also intends to use this technology as the basis for their proposal to DARPAs "Flying Humvee" Transformer program. [13] [14] [15]
Rockwell Collins (COL) secures contract to provide Airborne Computer Equipment V Architecture Zero equipment to Unmanned Aircraft System RQ-7B Shadow.
On 2 June 2012, the Gray Eagle reached a record 10,000 successful automatic launch and recoveries with the Automatic Takeoff and Landing System (ATLS). The system also landed with a 26 knot crosswind. By 25 July 2012, the Army's Gray Eagle Block 1 aircraft has accumulated more than 35,000 flight hours since it was first deployed in 2008.
The squadron's first flight was flown by a RQ-7 Shadow on 22 September 2008. [3] During 2008 and 2009 the squadron supported numerous exercises throughout the Southwestern United States to include Steel Knight, Mojave Viper and Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona. [citation needed]
VMU-2's use of ScanEagle during the deployment contributed to over 20,000 combat flight hours. In August 2012, the Night Owls of VMU-2 re-deployed the RQ-7B Shadow, back to MCAS Cherry Point. This brought to a close more than four years of RQ-7B Shadow support to combat operations.
Raymond Poltera, a Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Mech with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, launches an RQ-7B Shadow 200 TUAV on Camp Taji, Aug. 11. The Shadow provides commanders on the ground throughout the MND-B area of operations the ability to quite literally see the entire battlefield.