Hood Tech Mechanical Launcher Back in Afghanistan with RQ-21A UAV

Hood Tech Mechanicals UAV Launcher is back in Afghanistan, this time supporting the RQ!"A
#lack$ack UAV using an earl% operational capabilit% model&
Hood Rier! "R! U#A! $une 2%! 2&1' -- Hood Tech Mechanicals UAV Launcher is back in
Afghanistan, this time supporting the RQ!"A #lack$ack UAV using an earl% operational capabilit%
model&
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The RQ!"A, dubbed the #lack$ack, has deplo%ed to Afghanistan
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s%stem features Hood Tech Mechanicals launcher, /hich along /ith a uni9ue capture s%stem frees
the UAV for run/a%less operation& T/o %ears after the U: Marines took deli)er% of the first t/o
s%stems, fi)e UAVs are deplo%ing using an earl% operational capabilit% model& As noted in the
article, ;&&&the ,"&!kgsi<ed RQ!"A is capable of performing man%=missions& (t carries pa%loads
/eighing up to ""&1 kg in an internal ba%&> ?espite increased si<e and /eight, the Hood Tech
Mechanical launcher launches the UAV easil% under difficult conditions&
The article goes on to note that the U: Marines intend ;=to operate 1! RQ!"A s%stems& The 5U:
@a)%8 plans to ac9uire !0 RQ!"As&>
Ahen in !--! Hood Tech began producing inno)ati)e UAV launchers and retrie)al s%stems for
small UAVs, those inno)ations enabled the elimination of run/a%s& This freed aircraft for shipboard
use, for deplo%ment in irregular or disrupted landscapes, and for other difficult locations& :ho/ing
their ruggedness and reliabilit%, Hood Tech launchers ha)e initiated tens of thousands of flights
under the eBtreme en)ironments of combat in (ra9 and Afghanistan and aboard ships in the oceans
around the globe&
?r& And% )on Cloto/ founded Hood Technolog% in Hood Ri)er, *regon in "DD!& (n addition to the
design and manufacture of launch s%stems, Hood Technolog%6
Ero)ides <ip test ser)ices for preflight safet% )erification of eBperimental aircraft and
components&
*/ns and maintains a silent /ind tunnel for measuring UAV engine and prop noise in
accordance /ith M(L:T?".3.&
?e)elops, tests, and manufactures stabili<ed imaging s%stems for a )ariet% of UAVs
Monitors blade )ibrations in industrial turbines and $et engines, a diagnostic method for
predicting possible future failures&
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