The RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is used by the US Army, USMC, Australian Army and Swedish Army for reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquistition and battle damage assessment. Launched from a trailer-mounted pneumatic catapult, it is recovered with the aid of arresting gear similar to jets on an aircraft carrier. Its gimbal-mounted, digitally-stabilized, liquid nitrogen-cooled electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) camera relays video in real time via a C-band line-of-sight data link to the ground control station(GCS).

In the US, The Army's 2nd Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment at Fort Uachuca, AZ, trains soldiers, Marines, and civilians in the operation and maintenance of the Shadow UAV. The training program is mainly undertaken by civilian instructors.

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RQ-7B, Unknown Unit, Iraq, 2011.
RQ-7B, Unknown Unit, Iraq, 2011.
RQ-7B, Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Korea, 2011.
RQ-7B, Unknown Unit, Iraq, 2008.

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