page_title: Boeing Defense, Space & Security
section_title: Unmanned aerial vehicles
hierarchical_section_title: Boeing Defense, Space & Security / Products / Unmanned aerial vehicles
caption_attribution_description: English: The first X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator completed its sixth flight on Dec. 19, 2002, raising its landing gear in flight for the first time. The X-45A flew for 40 minutes and reached an airspeed of 195 knots and an altitude of 7,500 feet. Dryden is supporting the DARPA/Boeing team in the design, development, integration, and demonstration of the critical technologies, processes, and system attributes leading to an operational UCAV system. Dryden support of the X-45A demonstrator system includes analysis, component development, simulations, ground and flight tests.
context_page_description: Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a division of The Boeing Company based in Arlington, Virginia. It is responsible for defense and aerospace products and services. It was formerly known as Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.
  Boeing Integrated Defense Systems was formed in 2002 by combining the former "Military Aircraft and Missile Systems" and "Space and Communications" divisions. Boeing Defense, Space & Security makes Boeing the second-largest defense contractor in the world and was responsible for 45% of the company's income in 2011.
  Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a consolidated group which brought together major names in aerospace; Boeing Military Airplane Company; Hughes Satellite Systems; Hughes Helicopters minus the civilian helicopters products; Piasecki Helicopter, subsequently known as Boeing Vertol and then Boeing Helicopters; the St. Louis-based McDonnell division of the former McDonnell Douglas Company; and the former North American Aviation division of Rockwell International.
context_section_description: Boeing Insitu RQ-21 Blackjack
  Boeing YQM-94
  Boeing CQM-121 Pave Tiger – anti-radar drone
  Boeing X-45//Phantom Ray – technology demonstrators
  Boeing X-46
  Boeing X-48
  Boeing X-50 Dragonfly – experimental Gyrodyne UAV
  Boeing X-51
  Boeing A160 Hummingbird – development UAV helicopter
  Boeing Condor
  Boeing DARPA Vulture
  Boeing HALE
  Boeing Insitu ScanEagle
  Boeing MQ-25 Stingray
  Boeing Phantom Eye – in development as high altitude, long range UAV
  Boeing Persistent Munition Technology Demonstrator
  Boeing SolarEagle
  GQM-163 Coyote
  MA-31
  Boeing Airpower Teaming System
caption: The X-45A UAV, a prototype for the significantly larger X-45C
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