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Shadow 200 passes 100,000 hour mark
HUNT VALLEY, Maryland, 20 June 2006 - Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (TUAS), designed and built by AAI Corporation, surpassed 100,000 flight hours, during a June, 2006 combat mission, in support of U.S. forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), less than a year after reaching 50,000 hours, in total flight operations.
The hours-of-operation milestone was recorded in the week of June 12 during a sortie flown by a U.S. Army unit,supporting ground operations against terrorism in Iraq.
The 50,000 hour mark was reached on 9 August 2005.
AAI-Built Shadow® UAV surpasses 100,000-hour milestone
“Shadow systems have proven to be key surveillance and intelligence-gathering assets, in support of U.S. Army and National Guard units in Iraq,” said Steve Reid, AAI’s vice president of unmanned aircraft systems. “For instance, achieving 50,000 flight hours over the last 10 months, means that between seven and eight Shadow aircraft were in the air simultaneously, on average, during every hour, day and night of that entire stretch.”
Since being deployed to Iraq, at the onset of military operations there in early 2003, Shadow systems have flown more than 19,000 sorties and more than 84,000 flight hours, in support of U.S. and allied operations. Total hours include sorties in training and other deployments.
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