AAI RQ-7 Shadow
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The AAI RQ-7 Shadow is an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the United States Army, Australian Army, Swedish Army, Turkish Air Force and Italian Army for reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition and battle damage assessment. Launched from a trailer-mounted pneumatic catapult, it is recovered with the aid of arresting gear similar to jets on an aircraft carrier. Its gimbal-mounted, digitally stabilized, liquid nitrogen-cooled electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) camera relays video in real time via a C-band line-of-sight data link to the ground control station (GCS).
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Drawing of the AAI RQ-7 Shadow by AirwayControl Aircraft Library (https://aircraft.intelsystems.ai/aircraft/RQ7/), CC BY 4.0Specifications
- Length
- 3.4 m11.2 ft
- Wingspan
- 4.3 m14.1 ft
- Max take-off weight
- 0.17 t400 lb
- Max speed
- 204 km/h127 mph
- Range
- 109 km68 mi
- Ceiling
- 4,600 m15,100 ft
- Engines
- 1× UEL AR741 rotary
- Power
- 38 hp
- First flight
- 1991
- In service
- 2002
From the AirwayControl spec register, curated from Wikipedia and manufacturer pages. Figures vary by variant.
