{"id":1038,"date":"2022-07-15T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2023-12-29T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:15:47","slug":"u-s-navy-hands-over-rq-21a-uav-to-the-royal-thai-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/company\/news\/article\/u-s-navy-hands-over-rq-21a-uav-to-the-royal-thai-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Hands Over RQ-21A UAV To The Royal Thai Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0RQ-21A Blackjack\u00a0is an unmanned and unarmed aircraft system designed for maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. With a range of 50 nautical miles, a speed of 60 nautical miles per hour, and an endurance of 16 hours, the RQ-21A Blackjack will enhance Thailand\u2019s maritime security capabilities for search and rescue operations, and drug and human trafficking interdiction. It will also advance the interoperability of our navies.<\/p>\n<p>Funded via the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative (MSI), the Royal Thai Navy program includes five aircraft, two ground control stations, launch and recovery equipment, and in-residence training in the United States. The program also includes technical advisors to assist the Royal Thai Navy with operations and maintenance of the system.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-Thai alliance ensures a free and open Indo-Pacific that is vital to regional peace, security, and stability. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/naval-news\/2022\/05\/u-s-navy-hands-over-rq-21a-uav-to-the-royal-thai-navy\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/naval-news\/2022\/05\/u-s-navy-hands-over-rq-21a-uav-to-the-royal-thai-navy\/\" data-cke-saved- target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, Vice Admiral Karl Thomas presided over a ceremony to officially hand over the RQ-21A Unmanned Aircraft System to the Royal Thai Navy on May 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodtechvision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}