RQ-21A BLACKJACK
Abstract
The Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) is a combined United States Navy (USN) and United States Marine Corps (USMC) program that provides persistent maritime and land-based tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance/Target Acquisition (RSTA) support for tactical level maneuver decisions and unit level force defense/force protection for Naval amphibious assault ships (multi-ship classes) and Navy and Marine land forces. This system will support Naval Missions such as building the Recognized Maritime Picture, Maritime Security Operations, Maritime Interdiction Operations, and provide support for Naval Units operating from sea/shore in Overseas Contingency Operations. This submission is the USNs portion of the program and has been coordinated with the USMC budget submission PE 0305239M (RQ-21A). A STUAS system (Land-based or Ship-based) consists of five (5) air vehicles, two (2) Ground Control Stations, multi-mission (plug and play) payloads, one (1) launcher, one (1) recovery system and associated support equipment. The STUAS system will continue to evolve and upgrade capabilities to satisfy capabilities shortfalls, new requirements, and reliability, maintainability and safety issues. Upgraded capabilities may include Navy Command and Control integration, Signals Intelligence and Synthetic Aperture Radar payloads, weapons integration, Heavy Fuel Engine, Laser Designator and Digital Common Data Link. RQ-21A will also continue to expand its shipboard capability across new ship classes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 3192_0305234N_7_1319_PB_2015
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