Boeing Shows Off Phantom Ray UAV Demonstrator

Boeing has unveiled a fighter-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system demonstrator, reports the St. Louis-based company.

The Phantom Ray is scheduled to begin taxi tests this summer, to be followed by first flight in December, which would be about two years after work on the project began, company officials said.

The system is designed to support a variety of potential missions, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; suppression of enemy air defenses...