Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles
Appendix 2: Modern UAVs

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The Main Part of the Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles presents concise information about all missiles and rockets, which have received a numerical designation in the DOD's joint Designation System for Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles since 27 June 1963.

In 1997 the Department of Defense introduced a new Q-for-UAV series in the designation system for manned(!) aircraft. This series covers recoverable UAVs, many of which are somewhat similar in operation to manned aircraft (e.g. taking off and landing on a runway). Similar to the articles in the DUSRM main part, the primary goal of this appendix is to provide a reference to all allocated designations in this Q series, and to highlight the differences between the UAVs' versions.


UAV Index

General Atomics RQ/MQ-1 Predator
IAI/Pioneer Inc. RQ-2 Pioneer
Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar
Northrop Grumman (Teledyne Ryan) RQ-4 Global Hawk
Northrop Grumman (TRW/IAI) RQ/MQ-5 Hunter
Alliant Techsystems RQ-6 Outrider
AAI RQ-7 Shadow 200
Northrop Grumman RQ/MQ-8 Fire Scout
General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (Predator B)
MMIST CQ-10 SnowGoose
AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven
(MQ-12)
AeroVironment RQ-12 Wasp AE
(Q-13)
AeroVironment RQ-14 Dragon Eye / Swift
DRS RQ-15 Neptune
Honeywell RQ-16 T-Hawk
MTC Technologies MQ-17 SpyHawk
Boeing MQ-18 Hummingbird
AAI MQ-19 Aerosonde
AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma AE
Boeing/Insitu RQ-21 Integrator
AeroVironment RQ-22 Global Observer
NAVMAR RQ-23 TigerShark




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