The Boeing Company
Provides ScanEagle UAV to
Australian Army

Photo Essay	Boeing ScanEagle UAV
A Boeing contractor explains the workings of the ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to visiting military analysts. The UAV has been credited with the lives of a number of Marines during the fighting in Fallujah in 2004. Photo by Jim Garamone

Photo Credit: Jim Garamone

Boeing News: BRISBANE, Jan. 05, 2007 -- Boeing Australia Limited announced it has been awarded a contract to provide reconnaissance and surveillance services to the Australian Army using the ScanEagle autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

The services provided by ScanEagle are currently being used in southern Iraq by Australian soldiers operating with the Overwatch Battle Group (West)-2 in Operation Catalyst.

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American Forces Information Service News Articles, stated that the UAV performed flawlessly said the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force officials. ScanEagle enabled commanders to ascertain targets and provided specific coordinates via the Global Positioning System. ScanEagle UAV has already saved the lives of many Marines in FALLUJAH, Iraq, 2005.

The ScanEagle system, developed by Boeing and the Insitu Group of Bingen, Wash., had its baptism of fire during some of the heaviest urban combat Marines have been involved in since Hue City in Vietnam in 1968.

According to gizmag article, dated May 18, 2006, currently being trialled for its maritime capabilities by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) in "Trial Vigilant Viper" off the coast of Scotland, the ScanEagle completed ten autonomous flights with full launch and recovery from a Type 23 Frigate in rough sea conditions. A small UAV such as the ScanEagle can significantly increase the capability of a boat, and the missions conducted during the trial illustrate this enormous potential for land and sea surveillance, beach reconnaissance, force protection, maritime interdiction and naval gunfire support. ScanEagle has surpassed 3,000 combat flight hours in Iraq (Status was given in June 6, 2005).

It is also reported that the U.S. Navy is currently using ScanEagle to provide critical ISR data in support of Expeditionary Strike Group missions and oil platform security.

Reported by Sandra Englund, January 7th, 2007

References:

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Boeing_Provides_ScanEagle_UAV_to
_Australian_Army_999.html

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2007/q1/070104c_nr.html

http://www.boeing.com/ids/advanced_systems/news/2005/q2/nr_050526n.html

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2005/n01112005_2005011103.html

http://www.gizmag.com/go/5647/

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