RQ-7 Shadow Analysis

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UAS development continues to be ongoing, the continued development creates new capabilities as well as improving old ones. A system that has been developing over the years is the RQ-7 Shadow. This platform has a wide verity of uses and capabilities that range anywhere from tactical to strategic mission sets. Also, this system was produced to provide 2 “Brigade commanders with improved capabilities and bring a better situational awareness within their AOR”. Through these advancements it has improved the capabilities within the GEOINT profession. To ensure all GEOINT intelligence problems are solved.
UAS technology has been around and used during WWII and the Vietnam wars. However, the RQ-7 shadow did not start development until 1991. It was

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