Boeing Studies UAV Deployment From V-22

Boeing is studying the possible deployment of unmanned air vehicles, such as ScanEagle Compressed Carriage (SECC), from the back of the V-22 Osprey.

“It’s mostly through our Boeing V-22 program, but we’re looking at whether you could launch this thing out of a box,” says Ron Perkins, director of Boeing Phantom Works’ Advanced Unmanned Airborne Systems. “It’s very doable and would fit very easily in a V-22.”

The concept, which has attracted “some interest from customers,” Perkins says, emerges as Boeing and its wholly owned subsidiary Insitu come to the final stages of a demonstration in Arizona involving control of a ScanEagle from a NATO E-3 AWACS.

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