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Friday, August 03, 2012

RQ-21A Integrator completes first flight

RQ-21A Integrator |Boeing Insitu on 28 July completed the first flight milestone of the US Navy and US Marine Corps' RQ-21A Integrator unmanned air vehicle, with six months remaining in the development phase of the programme.

The 1h flight test at an Insitu facility in eastern Oregon will allow the Marines to begin operational testing in August, says Col James Rector, programme manager of PMA-263, the office in Naval Air Systems Command managing the small tactical unmanned air systems (STUAS) programme.

The 61kg (135lb), twin-boomed RQ-21A is designed as a follow-on to the Insitu ScanEagle, a 20kg UAS operated by the USMC and USN since 2004.

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