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The Boeing Insitu RQ-21 Blackjack, company name Integrator, is an American unmanned air vehicle designed and built by Boeing Insitu to meet a United States Navy requirement for a small tactical unmanned air system (STUAS). [6] It is a twin-boom, single-engine monoplane, designed as a supplement to the Boeing Scan Eagle. [6]
Insitu, with the U.S. Navy, developed the RQ-21A Blackjack to fill the requirement for a small tactical UAS capable of operating from both land and sea. [13] The Integrator is the standard variant of the RQ-21A. Insitu's UAVs are launched via a pneumatic catapult launcher and are recovered using the SkyHook recovery system. [4]
In March 2007, the Night Owls deployed again for the fifth time in support of OIF 06–08. Deploying with the AAI RQ-2 Pioneer and ScanEagle yet again, the Night Owls executed a successful combat deployment and returned to MCAS Cherry Point later in 2007. In January 2008, VMU-2 transitioned from the RQ-2B Pioneer to the AAI RQ-7B Shadow ...
The Boeing Insitu ScanEagle is a small, long-endurance, low-altitude unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle built by Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, and is used for reconnaissance. [1] [2] The ScanEagle was designed by Insitu based on the Insitu SeaScan, a commercial UAV that was intended for fish-spotting. The ScanEagle ...
RQ-21 Blackjack United States: Medium unmanned aerial vehicle: 10 [113] [210] Canadian designation CU-172 Blackjack. [211] 1 system with 5 aircraft acquired in 2016. [212] A second system with 5 aircraft ordered in 2019 for delivery in summer 2022. [210] [213] The DND was also the first international customer for the UAS. [214] RQ-11B Raven ...
Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 4 (VMU-4) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) squadron in the United States Marine Corps that operates the RQ-21 Blackjack. It is the fourth UAV squadron in the Marine Corps and the first in the reserve component. The squadron, nicknamed the "Evil Eyes", entered the force structure on 1 July 2010, when ...
The first such test was with the Boeing Insitu Integrator (flown by the U.S. Navy and Marines as the RQ-21 Blackjack) in February 2017, with a follow-on conducted in May. For those demonstrations, RedKite was integrated directly into the payload bay of the Integrator.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is a division of The Boeing Company based in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. The division builds military airplanes, rotorcraft, and missiles, as well as space systems for both commercial and military customers, including satellites, spacecraft, and rockets.