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Drones: electronics
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The drones ears and eyes.
The role of drones is increasingly expanding into that of manned aircraft territory. Initially relegated to simple recce duties, they are now moving into synthetic aperture radar, singint, personnel support and weapon delivery missions. Some of these missions were only reserved for the larger models, but with the miniaturisation of payloads, the boundaries separating weight and mission categories are blurring.
********** Drones, apart from the target variety, are almost synonymous with reconnaissance, and their modern history (as opposed to World War Two era) can be traced back to the Vietnam War years. At the time their average life there was a mere 3.5 missions. And they were huge (a Ryan 147H had a wingspan of almost ten metres) for comparatively moderate duration missions, were launched by a Herc...See the full content of this document
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