With over three a long time of expertise creating, creating and sustaining unmanned plane methods (UAS), we’ve remained dedicated to advancing the capabilities that UAS present to troopers throughout the battlespace. Shadow® Tactical Unmanned Plane System (TUAS) is battle-proven with over 1.3 million flight hours, constructed to help the U.S. Military Fight Aviation Brigades (CAB), and particular forces. Textron System Improved Shadow TUAS, or Shadow RQ-7B V2 Blk III, was developed in 2020 to convey enhanced capabilities to the Military’s CABs. To help the U.S. Military’s fielding efforts of the improved Shadow TUAS, we had been chosen to supply the troopers with new tools coaching (NET).
“These NET occasions present Textron Techniques the distinctive alternative to keep up common touchpoints with the U.S. Military buyer from improvement of the plane right through fielding and deployment. We’ve got a group of material specialists with an operational mindset who’re devoted to supporting the sustainment of the Shadow TUAS,” mentioned Jim Ryan, Senior Director of Enterprise Growth.
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Every NET occasion is a five-week sequence of trainings which our group conducts with every unit that has obtained the Improved Shadow. The occasions encompass two weeks of classroom coaching with an extra three weeks of flight operations. As the unique tools producers (OEM) for the Improved Shadow plane, our NET group works intently with a talented group of material specialists (SME) and discipline service representatives (FSR) to make sure troopers obtain full coaching obligatory to soundly function and keep the upgraded plane. Our group has accomplished 9 NET occasions, with an extra 5 scheduled by year-end.
The Shadow RQ-7B V2 plane offers troopers with superior capacities wanted for fulfillment within the regularly evolving battlespace. The Improved Shadow system consists of mission-focused upgrades together with a 24% enhance in horsepower, and extra superior HD payload functionality. The system is also environmentally hardened to face up to as much as two inches of rain per hour. Greater than 100 Improved Shadow plane have been fielded to the U.S. Military as an improve to the earlier Shadow TUAS. Shadow TUAS will proceed to help world army operations for the U.S. Military by 2036.
