U.S. Pacific Fleet
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(R) Mission commander Sergeant Greg Hunt (Mildura, Vic), 20th Surveillance Target Acquisition Regiment, talks with Insitu Pacific field service representatives Jeff Robertson (L) and Darren Walsh (C) during a ScanEagle mission during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011.
Mid-caption: 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. Brisbane-based Defence contractor Insitu Pacific provides the ScanEagle capability for Defence.
Exercise Talisman Sabre (11–29 July 2011) is a major bilateral exercise designed to train Australian and United States forces in planning and conducting combined operations across the full spectrum of military full spectrum of military operations from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance in order to improve Australian–US combat readiness and interoperability.
Photograph by Corporal Raymond Vance
1st Joint Public Affairs Unit
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(R) Mission commander Sergeant Greg Hunt (Mildura, Vic), 20th Surveillance Target Acquisition Regiment, talks with Insitu Pacific field service representatives Jeff Robertson (L) and Darren Walsh (C) during a ScanEagle mission during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2011.
Mid-caption: 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. Brisbane-based Defence contractor Insitu Pacific provides the ScanEagle capability for Defence.
Exercise Talisman Sabre (11–29 July 2011) is a major bilateral exercise designed to train Australian and United States forces in planning and conducting combined operations across the full spectrum of military full spectrum of military operations from conventional conflict to peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance in order to improve Australian–US combat readiness and interoperability.
Photograph by Corporal Raymond Vance
1st Joint Public Affairs Unit