First Flight of the RQ-7B Shadow v2

On 29 July 2018, the US Marines Corps launched its very last mission with the RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The RQ-7B belonged to Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 3 Phantoms ('FZ-xx') that is based at Kaneohe Bay MCAF, MCB Hawaii, Marion E. Carl Field (HI). VMU-3 replaced the RQ-7B with the more advanced RQ-21A Shadowhawk. The last mission of the RQ-7B was in support of an amphibious landing demonstration as part of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) and was launched from it