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RQ-7 Shadow

Also known as: Shadow 200 · RQ-7B

Manufacturer: Textron Systems (AAI Corp.)

RQ-7 Shadow

US Army brigade-level catapult-launched recon UAV. Shadow 200 reaches 125 km mission radius and 9-hour endurance.

Specifications

Category
reconnaissance
In service since
2002
Weight
200 kg
Payload
27 kg
Range
125 km
Endurance
540 min
Speed
204 km/h
Control
RF
EW resistance
medium
Autonomy
operator-on-loop
Unit cost (USD)
$500,000 – $1,000,000

Known operators

🇦🇺 Australia🇵🇱 Poland

Notable use cases

Heavy use over Iraq and Afghanistan (2003-2021); Polish and Romanian deployments along NATO eastern flank from 2022.

Recent events involving this drone

doctrine-change2026-05-09DARPA seeks concepts for autonomous containerized drone constellations supporting swarms up to 500 UAVs🇺🇸
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Sources

Data confidence: 95 / 100. Catalog is in active development.