Shadow RST-V reconnaissance, surveillance and targeting vehicle

The Shadow reconnaissance, surveillance and targeting vehicle (RST-V) has been under development in a joint DARPA/USMC program. It was to to be a light (less than 4 tons) four-wheel drive vehicle capable of being carried in the Boeing V-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing transport plane.

This transportation capability limited its width to 5 ft (1.6 m) and its height to 5 ft 8 in (1.7 m). The RST-V was to carry three or four Marines across country on missions close to and...