Boeing’s [BA] Insitu business unit has successfully demonstrated the integration and drop of inert GPS-guided Shryke munitions from its Integrator unmanned aircraft system (UAS), the first time the aircraft has dropped a Shryke.
Integrator is a Group 3 UAS that can fly for more than 24 hours with 40 pounds of payload capacity. An Integrator can carry up to 10 Shrykes.
Shryke, a precision glide munition, was developed by Corvid Technologies with L3Harris Technologies
[LHX].
“We were able to demonstrate a low signature munition with a safe separation sensor, fuze, and warhead on Integrator,” Kyle Bowen, Corvid’s director of business development, said in a statement. “Integrator delivered the munitions within one to two meters of the target in each test flight. We couldn’t have asked for a more successful demonstration.”
For the Shryke tests with Integrator, two munitions were fitted into Integrator’s payload bay.
“Pairing kinetics with Insitu’s proven endurance and range gives our customers flexibility in how they address a dynamic battlefield,” Justin Pearce, Insitu’s vice president of programs, engineering & flight, said in a statement.
L3Harris provided a MIL-STD-1316 electronic safe and arm device for “safety-critical energetic systems initiations-on-command and to safely support the post-flight recover of munitions still installed,” Insitu said.
In addition to a center bay, Integrator has two wing trays, and two wing-mounted hard points. Insitu said it is working with customers and industry partners to test and integrate additional munitions.