Choppers on the trend: like helicopters many years ago, rotary-wing drones went through their own period of suspicion in terms of reliability and safety issues and are now definitely being regarded as serious 'grown-up' options, particularly onboard ships.

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Choppers on the trend: like helicopters many years ago, rotary-wing drones went through their own period of suspicion in terms of reliability and safety issues and are now definitely being regarded as serious 'grown-up' options, particularly onboard ships.

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Understandably, sailors have always looked at helicopter drones as potentially dangerous items, with their rotary wings hesitatingly beating the air close to various structures, particularly when they have to land on a small deck.

Fixed-wing solutions were therefore sought, with various launch and recovery methods: some involved short catapults with recovery by e...

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