The US Army has awarded a contract to AAI Corporation for the production of additional Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft systems (TUAS).
Under the $39m contract, the company will supply two additional units for the US Army and one for the marine corps.
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The Shadow unmanned system is designed to locate, recognise and identify targets up to 125km from a brigade tactical operations centre. and can recognise tactical vehicles at day and night from an altitude of 8,000ft and at a range of 3.5km.
Each Shadow system includes four Shadow aircraft, two One System ground control stations and ground data terminals, four One System remote video terminals, a One System portable ground control station, and associated components and support equipment.
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems vice president Steven Reid said the company-developed mission profiles extended beyond reconnaissance and surveillance to target acquisition, intelligence-gathering and communications relay.
To date, AAI has delivered 91 Shadow systems, and the recent contract will extend the deliveries to March 2011.
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