Insitu’s ScanEagle Proves Consistent Reliability Over 500,000 Combat Flight Hours
Insitu Inc. announced today 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 warfighter 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.
“We successfully accomplished this milestone through a collaborative global team,” said Insitu President and CEO Steve Morrow. “We have a dedicated, highly trained, agile team of field service representatives (FSR), engineers, program support personnel and partners who support our customers around the world to make ScanEagle an invaluable ISR asset.”
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 warfighter since its first deployment with the U.S. Marine Corps in 2004.
Fielding scores of technology upgrades, Insitu has built on lessons learned in theater to address the urgent requirements of the warfighter with tangible solutions using the proven ScanEagle platform. Insitu’s newest system, Integrator, uses the same design concepts to ensure reliability.
Insitu Inc., located in Bingen, Wash., is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. Insitu designs, develops and manufactures UAS and provides associated services for commercial, civil and defense applications. With a small footprint and expeditionary focus for both land and sea operations, the company’s family of UAS solutions and global mission support serves the needs of worldwide customers. To date, these systems have accumulated 500,000 combat flight hours and 56,000 combat sorties.
