RQ-7A Shadow 200
date: label: Date
content: 2003
notes: label: Physical Description
content: Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
label: Summary
content: The RQ-7A provides ground commanders the ability to "see first, understand first, and act first-decisively." The twin-boom pusher aircraft performs day or night reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, and bomb damage assessment. It has nonretractable landing gear for conventional takeoff and landing, but it can also be launched by catapult and use a tail hook and arresting cables for a shorter landing.
label: Summary
content: A Shadow 200 system consists of four RQ-7As and two ground control stations, which transmit tactical reconnaissance imagery and telemetry data in near real time directly to combat command centers. The RQ-7A entered service with the U.S. Army in 2002 and flew its first mission over Baghdad in April 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
label: Summary
content: Screamin' Demon flew with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division. Its last combat flight in Iraq took place in 2005. It flew 124 missions totaling nearly 500 flight hours.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: United States of America
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content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transferred from the U.S. Army
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A20080399000
objectType: label: Type
content: CRAFT-Aircraft
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Composite material over metal structure. Tubular metal boom tail structure.
label: Dimensions
content: 3-D: 335.3 × 91.4cm, 117.9kg, 4.267m (11 × 3 ft., 260lb., 14 ft.)