Advances in UAVs for Combat

Unmanned target drones were used to fool Iraq’s air defenses in 1991 and 2003 and Serb defenses in 1999. But so far, target drones used in combat have flown unarmed. That has changed with the test last week of a QF-4—an unmanned F-4 fighter—firing a new, Navy-developed, high-speed, anti-radiation...

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