By 2020,
STUAS should account for half of all UAVs in the Navy's inventory.
For the Navy,
STUAS will provide persistent RSTA support for tactical
STUAS, which is being developed by Insitu, will accommodate a 75-pound payload--a drastic improvement over its predecessor's 5-pound limit.
Possible future
Stuas developments include the addition of a magnetic anomaly detector to find submarines.
In 2005 the US Marine Corps validated an urgent operational need for a Small Tactical UAS (
Stuas) or Tier II to replace the contractor-supplied ScanEagle service.
Rockwell Collins has revealed that it is to be the flight control system provider to Boeing/Insitu for the US Navy's small tactical unmanned air system (
STUAS) program.
In spite of a loss on the US Navy's small tactical unmanned aerial systems (
STUAS)/Tier II contract last month, Raytheon remains confident the Killer Bee will find a customer.
Killer Bee 4: The lighter US Navy/Marine Corps Tier II or
Stuas (Small Tactical UAS), now part of Group Three, is required for service in 2011.
This new contract (again with contractor personnel operating the systems) is expected to bridge the gap to the US Marine Corps's new Tier II, which the US Navy refers to as the Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (
Stuas) and is due for initial operational capability in FY11.
Raytheon In spite of a loss on the US Navy's small tactical unmanned aerial systems (
STUAS)/Tier II contract last month, Raytheon remains confident the Killer Bee will find a customer.
The US Marine Corps' new Tier II is referred to by the US Navy (which will also operate the type) as the 'Small Tactical UAS' (
Stuas).
Boeing The US Navy has awarded its much-anticipated small tactical unmanned aircraft systems (
STUAS) contract to the Boeing/Insitu Integrator, having had the decision in a holding pattern since last October.