ScanEagle UAV deployed in first naval combat mission

The Tarawa Expeditionary Strike Group, which sailed into the U.S. Central Command's Iraqi theater early this month, is boasting the first formal naval deployment of an unmanned aerial system in maritime combat missions, a U.S. Navy official said Sept. 22. ScanEagle, a long-endurance unmanned aerial...

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