| Designation | Official, Popular Name(s) | Manufacturer | 1st Flight or Appearance | Role(s)/Notes |
Q-1 Radioplane 1948? model airplane target
Q-1 Predator General 199? medium altitude reconaissance UAV
Atomics
Q-2 Firebee Teledyne 1948? drone, later BQM-34
Q-2 Pioneer IAI 199? short-range tact. recon. UAV
Q-330 Radioplane 1948? redes. OQ-3 or mod. Q-1
Q-3 DarkStar Lockheed- 199? low-observable high-alt. recon. UAV
Martin/Boeing
Q-4 Radioplane/ 1948? drone, later AQM-35
Bendix
Q-4 GlobalHawk Teledyne 1998 heavy payload, high-alt., long endurance recon. UAV
Ryan
Q-5 Kingfisher Lockheed 1948? target version of X-7; later AQM-60
Q-5 Hunter TRW/IAI 1999 redes. BQM-155 UAV
Q-6 possibly not assigned, as OQ-6 still in use
Q-6 Outrider Alliant 200? Army recon. UAV
Techsystems
Q-7 possibly not assigned, as OQ-7 still in use
Q-7 TUAV AAI 200? Army recon. tactical UAV
Q-8 Cadet Culver 1948?
Q-8 Firescout Northrop 200? DARPA/Navy recon., target designation UAV
Grumman/Ryan Aeronautical
Q-9?
Q-9 Predator B General 200? modified RQ-1; larger, reengined, proposed Hellfire-armed
Atomics
Q-10 Radioplane 1948? mod. OQ-19
Q-11 possibly not assigned, as OQ-11 still in use
Q-12 (KD2B) Challenger Beech 1948? USN KD2B; later redes. to AQM-37
Q-13 probably not assigned for superstitious reasons
Q-14 Cadet Culver 1948?
Q-20? Lear Astronics?
!QB-17 Flying Fortress Boeing 1941 testing B-17
QF-4 Phantom II McDonnell ? target drone F-4 - replaces QF-106
QF-106 Delta Dart Republic ? target drone F-106
QH-43 Husky Kaman 1957 world's first RPV - mod. H-43
QH-50 DASH Gyrodyne 1962 USN Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter H-50 with
(DSN) 2 Mk. 44/1 Mk.46 torpedo - redes. DSN
QRF-4 Phantom II McDonnell ? target drone RF-4 - replaces QF-106
QT-2 Quiet Thruster Lockheed 1967 DARPA/Army experimental quiet recon. -
sensitive equipment transport -
non-standard des.
QT-3 Quiet Thruster Lockheed 1968 modified QT-2 after Prize Crew evaluation in
Vietnam - later O-3
QT-38 Talon Northrop ? drone T-38
QU-22 Pave Eagle Beech 1960 sensor relay transport U-22
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