Background: Originally developed as an expendable communications jammer, BAI's BQM-147/Exdrone was developed by Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab and entered service with the U.S. Marine Corps in the mid 1980s. It evolved into a reuseable reconnaissance asset in the late 1980s, adding a color TV camera and a data link to transmit video in real time. During the Gulf War, the Marine Corps operated some 30 Exdrones from Saudi Arabia, and afterwards from Northern Iraq. In 1997-98, the Marine Corps modified some 30 Exdrones into the heavier Dragondrone variant and deployed a system (10 air vehicles) at sea with a Marine Expeditionary Unit. Exdrone is one of five different UAVs made by BAI, who has branched into the airborne sensor market with its Sony-based PTZ (Pan-Tilt-Zoom) color EO sensor. Over 400 Exdrones have been made, logging over 700 flight hours. Its primary customer has been the Marine Corps.