Insitu has announced that its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) surpassed 500,000 combat flight hours and more than 56,000 combat sorties to deliver actionable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) to the war fighter with 99 percent mission readiness.
Consistently providing long sorties and high mission readiness over half a million hours demonstrates the maturity and reliability of Insitu systems, processes and practices.
The small-operational footprint, runway-independent ScanEagle UAS can stay aloft for more than 24 hours – more than twice the time of the average mission, so it can respond to the unexpected – capturing superior image quality covertly at relatively low altitudes. Currently there is an average of 22 ScanEagle aircraft in flight globally at any given time.
The system has provided uninterrupted service to the war fighter since its first deployment with the US Marine Corps in 2004 and subsequently with the ADF.