Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute, Royal Air force chief Stephen Dalton says unmanned aerial vehicle pilots will be issued with their own wings from April next year.
Dalton added that the service also had to look to space as another “new fertile ground for intellectual and technical development”. He said the new generation of miniature reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering satellites could be useful in meeting the uncertain and contingent challenges of the future.
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