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    An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, fighter drone or battlefield UAV, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is...
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    Future Combat Air System (FCAS), (French: Système de combat aérien du futur; SCAF; Spanish: Futuro Sistema Aéreo de Combate; FSAC) is a European combat system...
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    retaliatory attacks against Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights with drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. The attack was codenamed by Iran...
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    Bayraktar TB2 (redirect from TB2 drone)
    a Turkish drone in a strike that killed nearly 60 civilians". Washington Post. Retrieved 3 September 2022. "Ethiopia Shows Off Combat Drones at Military...
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    An uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs were originally...
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    lead fighter aircraft. The main combat drone HAL CATS Warrior, itself will be able to release a swarm of 24 Alpha-S drones. Similar systems are also being...
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    The Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie (English: Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle) or VBCI is a French Infantry fighting vehicle designed and manufactured...
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    Air-to-air combat is the engagement of combat aircraft in warfare in which primarily fixed-wing aircraft attempt to destroy enemy aircraft using guns,...
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    positive control of an MQ-9 was lost during a combat mission over Afghanistan, after which the control-less drone started flying towards the Afghan border...
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  • Russian forces launched 25 Shahed drones and one Kh-59 missile. Ukrainian forces claimed to have downed 18 of the drones and the missile. Ukraine said it...
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  • On 28 January 2024, an attack drone, launched by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq—an Iranian-backed Shia militia group—struck Tower 22, a U.S. military...
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    "'First in the world': Lithuania signs contract to acquire Switchblade combat drones from US". LRT. 22 December 2022. Archived from the original on 22 December...
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    1929. One of the earliest explorations of the concept of the combat drone was by Lee de Forest, an early inventor of radio devices, and U. A. Sanabria...
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    Anduril had been contracted to deploy the drone to overseas combat zones. Anduril plans to market the drone to commercial oil and gas companies for policing...
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    Combat (French for fight) is a purposeful violent conflict between multiple combatants with the intent to harm the opposition. Combat may be armed (using...
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    The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator (often referred to as the Predator drone) is an American remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) built by General Atomics that...
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  • colloquially known as drones. The Hollywood Reporter wrote in February 2016, "There has been no shortage of films dealing with drones over the last few years...
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    drone-program "De Maiziere defends Bundeswehr reforms and Euro Hawk halt". Deutsche Welle, 15 May 2013. "Germany will not buy Euro Hawk drones." Reuters...
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    HESA Shahed 136 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    munition, also referred to as a kamikaze drone or suicide drone, in the form of an autonomous pusher-propelled drone. It is designed and manufactured by the...
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    research (2001) Dassault nEUROn, combat (was expected in 2011) Dassault-Sagem SlowFast, reconnaissance (2004) Delair Donecle drone, autonomous aircraft inspection...
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    (UAVs) include both autonomous (capable of operating without human input) drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). A UAV is capable of controlled, sustained...
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    range of 6 kilometers. The drone is used in reconnaissance and surveillance or combat roles. Hezbollah acquired Ababil-2 drones (twin-tail variant) in 2002...
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  • Unmanned aerial vehicles in the French Armed Forces (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    forces use drones for reconnaissance and combat purposes. They are under the command of the French Air & Space Force (Armée de l’Air & de l’Espace). The...
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    Targeted killing (redirect from Drone memo)
    combatants engaged in asymmetrical warfare. They argue that unmanned combat aerial vehicles (drones) are more humane and more accurate than manned vehicles. Scholars...
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    Bagpipes (redirect from Drone (bagpipes))
    supply, a bag, a chanter, and usually at least one drone. Many bagpipes have more than one drone (and, sometimes, more than one chanter) in various combinations...
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    List of active German Navy ships (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Navy mulling drone-heavy force structure looking towards 2035 and beyond". Naval News. Retrieved 2024-03-22. https://www.bundeswehr.de...
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    Orlan-10 features a composite fuselage that reduces its radar signature. Drones are usually deployed in groups of two or three; the first is used for reconnaissance...
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    Aerorozvidka (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    third-party drones, which combat units use for reconnaissance and adjusting artillery fire. These include, in particular, commercial DJI and Autel drones, which...
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  • Government of Italy permitted United States unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) to fly strike missions from Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily where...
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    United States drone strikes in Yemen started after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, when the US military attacked the Islamist militant...
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