Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Scan Eagle during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011

In the skies over Shoalwater Bay training area a near-silent, unmanned aircraft the size of a small family car is on patrol, watching and relaying what it sees on the ground back to Coalition commanders participating in Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011. The ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle provides military commanders with a vital intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability that provides a more complete battle picture, particularly when troops are conducting operations. During Talisman Sabre, soldiers from the 131st Surveillance Target Acquisition Battery from the Enoggera-based 20th Surveillance Target Acquisition Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, and Defence contractors from Insitu Pacific launched, controlled and recovered the ScanEagle UAVs from an airfield inside the Shoalwater Bay training area. The ScanEagle is a very reliable aircraft, having clocked up more than 500,000 combat flight hours and more than 56,000 missions for various defence forces around the world.

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