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Shadow UAV Enabling Marines To Grow Unmanned Squadrons

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Friday, November 9th, 2007

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By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps' decision to switch to United Industrial Corp. [UIC] AAI unit's Shadow unmanned aerial system (UAS) will enable the service to field a third unmanned aircraft squadron (VMU) while also moving to a more modern and reliable technology, a Marine Corps official says. In December 2006, the Marine Corps announced it was dropping Pioneer for Shadow. Pioneer UAV Inc., jointly owned by AAI and Israel Aircraft Industries, Ltd., builds Pioneer. In October, Textron [TXT] said…

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