We study projective homogeneous varieties under an action of a projective
unitary group (of outer type). We are especially interested in the case of
(unitary) grassmannians of totally isotropic subspaces of a hermitian form over
a field, the main result saying that these grassmannians are 2-incompressible
if the hermitian form is generic. Applications to orthogonal grassmannians are
provided.Comment: 25 page