Like other UAVs in service with the U.S. military, the Shadow keeps watch from the skies on terrain below, sending video images back to a ground station. Those images, in turn, can be used for surveillance and reconnaissance, or for target acquisition.
Earlier this year, the Shadow was one of a half-dozen UAVs considered worthy of being put on display at the Smithsonian Institution. It can fly at about 100 miles per hour and reach an altitude of about 19,000 feet.
Photo by U.S. Army
Caption by Jonathan Skillings
