DARPA has approached the industry to create a small, single-use, unpowered delivery drone that will self-destruct once its mission is over.
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Category: UAV
Turkish F-16 shot down UAV after three warnings were given
The Turkish General Staff website issued a statement today at 13:30 saying that an unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down in its airspace near the border with Syria after giving three warnings.
Photo: DHA
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Video of Chinese CH-4 UAV in Iraq
You could see a Chinese man standing behind an operator console in the 2:00 mark of the video.
Iraq unveils its Chinese-made CH-4 UAV
The presence of Chinese-made CH-4 unmanned aerial vehicle in Iraq was revealed when Defense Minister Khaled al-Obaidi paid a visit to Ubaydah Bin Al Jarrah Air Base.
Photos: Iraqi Ministry of Defense
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Russia to develop new air-launched high-speed UAV based on Tu-143
Russia will start research into a high-speed unmanned aerial vehicle that is launched from an aircraft. To start off, researchers will use the Tupolev Tu-143 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft from the 1970s as the basis.
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