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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Unmanned aerial vehicle that is usually armed</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Loitering_munition" title="Loitering munition">Loitering munition</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reaper_UAV_Takes_to_the_Skies_of_Southern_Afghanistan_MOD_45151418.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Reaper_UAV_Takes_to_the_Skies_of_Southern_Afghanistan_MOD_45151418.jpg/300px-Reaper_UAV_Takes_to_the_Skies_of_Southern_Afghanistan_MOD_45151418.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Reaper_UAV_Takes_to_the_Skies_of_Southern_Afghanistan_MOD_45151418.jpg/450px-Reaper_UAV_Takes_to_the_Skies_of_Southern_Afghanistan_MOD_45151418.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Reaper_UAV_Takes_to_the_Skies_of_Southern_Afghanistan_MOD_45151418.jpg/600px-Reaper_UAV_Takes_to_the_Skies_of_Southern_Afghanistan_MOD_45151418.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2035" /></a><figcaption>A British <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9A Reaper</a> operating over Afghanistan in 2009</figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>unmanned combat aerial vehicle</b> (<b>UCAV</b>), also known as a <b>combat drone</b>, <b>fighter drone</b> or <b>battlefield UAV</b>, is an <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">unmanned aerial vehicle</a> (UAV) that is used for <a href="/wiki/Intelligence,_surveillance,_target_acquisition,_and_reconnaissance" title="Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance">intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance</a> and carries <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_ordnance" title="Aircraft ordnance">aircraft ordnance</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Missile" title="Missile">missiles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anti-tank_guided_missile" title="Anti-tank guided missile">anti-tank guided missiles</a> (ATGMs), and/or <a href="/wiki/Aerial_bomb" title="Aerial bomb">bombs</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hardpoint" title="Hardpoint">hardpoints</a> for <a href="/wiki/Drone_strike" class="mw-redirect" title="Drone strike">drone strikes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These drones are usually under real-time human control, with varying levels of autonomy.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> UCAVs are used for reconnaissance, attacking targets and returning to base; unlike <a href="/wiki/Loitering_munition" title="Loitering munition">kamikaze drones</a> which are only made to explode on impact, or <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_surveillance_and_reconnaissance_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance aerial vehicle">surveillance drones</a> which are only for gathering intelligence. </p><p>Aircraft of this type have no onboard human pilot.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the <a href="/wiki/Radio_control" title="Radio control">operator runs the vehicle from a remote terminal</a>, equipment necessary for a human pilot is not needed, resulting in a lower weight and a smaller size than a manned aircraft. Many countries have operational domestic UCAVs, and many more have imported fighter drones or are in the process of developing them.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/History_of_unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicles" title="History of unmanned combat aerial vehicles">History of unmanned combat aerial vehicles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drone_warfare" title="Drone warfare">Drone warfare</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._drone_strikes" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes">Civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Teledyne_Ryan_Firebee_234.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Teledyne_Ryan_Firebee_234.jpg/300px-Teledyne_Ryan_Firebee_234.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Teledyne_Ryan_Firebee_234.jpg/450px-Teledyne_Ryan_Firebee_234.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Teledyne_Ryan_Firebee_234.jpg/600px-Teledyne_Ryan_Firebee_234.jpg 2x" data-file-width="790" data-file-height="498" /></a><figcaption>1972: <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Firebee" title="Ryan Firebee">Ryan Firebee</a> with 2 Maverick missiles</figcaption></figure> <p>One of the earliest explorations of the concept of the combat drone was by <a href="/wiki/Lee_de_Forest" title="Lee de Forest">Lee de Forest</a>, an early inventor of radio devices, and <a href="/wiki/Ulises_Armand_Sanabria" title="Ulises Armand Sanabria">U. A. Sanabria</a>, a TV engineer. They presented their idea in an article in a 1940 publication of <i>Popular Mechanics</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The modern military drone as known today was the brainchild of <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Foster_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="John Stuart Foster Jr.">John Stuart Foster Jr.</a>, a nuclear physicist of <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory" title="Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory">Lawrence Livermore Laboratory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kaplan_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kaplan-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1971, Foster was a <a href="/wiki/Model_airplane" class="mw-redirect" title="Model airplane">model airplane</a> hobbyist and had the idea this hobby could be applied to building weapons.<sup id="cite_ref-kaplan_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kaplan-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He drew up plans and by 1973 <a href="/wiki/DARPA" title="DARPA">DARPA</a> (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) built two prototypes called "Prairie" and "Calera". They were powered by a modified lawn-mower engine and could stay aloft for two hours while carrying a 28-pound (13 kg) load.<sup id="cite_ref-kaplan_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kaplan-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1973 <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War" title="Yom Kippur War">Yom Kippur War</a>, <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> used unarmed U.S. <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Firebee" title="Ryan Firebee">Ryan Firebee</a> target drones to spur <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> into firing its entire arsenal of anti-aircraft missiles.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This mission was accomplished with no injuries to Israeli pilots, who soon exploited the depleted Egyptian defences. In the late 1970s and 80s, Israel developed the <a href="/wiki/IAI_Scout" title="IAI Scout">Scout</a> and the <a href="/wiki/AAI_RQ-2_Pioneer" title="AAI RQ-2 Pioneer">Pioneer</a>, which represented a shift toward the lighter, glider-type model of UAV in use today. Israel pioneered the use of <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">unmanned aerial vehicles</a> (UAVs) for real-time surveillance, electronic warfare, and decoys.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The images and radar decoying provided by these UAVs helped Israel to completely neutralize the Syrian <a href="/wiki/Air_defense" class="mw-redirect" title="Air defense">air defenses</a> in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Mole_Cricket_19" title="Operation Mole Cricket 19">Operation Mole Cricket 19</a> at the start of the <a href="/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War" title="1982 Lebanon War">1982 Lebanon War</a>, resulting in no pilots downed.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJLevinson_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJLevinson-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1980s, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> deployed a drone armed with six <a href="/wiki/RPG-7" title="RPG-7">RPG-7</a> rounds in the <a href="/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War" title="Iran–Iraq War">Iran–Iraq War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Impressed by Israel's success, the US quickly acquired a number of UAVs, and its Hunter and Pioneer systems are direct derivatives of Israeli models. The first 'UAV war' was the first <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian Gulf War">Persian Gulf War</a>: according to a May 1991 Department of the Navy report: "At least one UAV was airborne at all times during Desert Storm." After the Persian Gulf War successfully demonstrated its utility, global militaries invested widely in the domestic development of combat UAVs.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first "kill" by an American UAV was on October 7, 2001, in <a href="/wiki/Kandahar" title="Kandahar">Kandahar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In recent years, the U.S. has increased its use of <a href="/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan" title="Drone strikes in Pakistan">drone strikes against targets in Pakistan</a> and elsewhere as part of the <a href="/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Terrorism">War on Terror</a>. In January 2014, it was estimated that 2,400 people had died from U.S. drone strikes in five years.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2015, the total death toll of U.S. drone strikes was estimated to exceed 6,000.<sup id="cite_ref-pilkington_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pilkington-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, Turkey became the first country to use UCAVs in a large, coordinated attack on a conventional battlefield when they attacked forces in Syria. They were used to attack enemy positions, to provide cover for ground forces and to scout for artillery.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Drones were used extensively in the <a href="/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war">2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war</a> between Azerbaijan and Armenia.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Azerbaijan's use of cheaper Turkish <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">TB2</a> drones was seen as crucial to their victory against the Armenian forces.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Drones were also used extensively during the <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Usage of drones offers a cost advantage: "People are taking small drones, like the ones you can buy at JB Hi-Fi for $2000, putting a grenade on them and flying them over a crowd or a tank and releasing the grenade. You can basically build a $3000 machine to destroy a $5 million piece of equipment that your enemy has."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current">Current</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Current"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Below are a list of some current dedicated armed UAV's: </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bayraktar_TB2_Runway.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Bayraktar_TB2_Runway.jpg/220px-Bayraktar_TB2_Runway.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Bayraktar_TB2_Runway.jpg/330px-Bayraktar_TB2_Runway.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Bayraktar_TB2_Runway.jpg/440px-Bayraktar_TB2_Runway.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3129" data-file-height="1305" /></a><figcaption>A Turkish <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a> on the runway</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Country </th> <th>Manufacturer </th> <th>Aircraft </th> <th>Introduced </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_Aeronautical_Systems" title="General Atomics Aeronautical Systems">General Atomics</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator" title="General Atomics MQ-1 Predator">MQ-1 Predator</a> </td> <td>1995 </td></tr> <tr> <td>United States </td> <td>General Atomics </td> <td><a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a> </td> <td>2007 </td></tr> <tr> <td>United States </td> <td>General Atomics </td> <td><a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1C_Gray_Eagle" title="General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle">MQ-1C Gray Eagle</a> </td> <td>2009 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_Australia" title="Boeing Australia">Boeing Australia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_MQ-28_Ghost_Bat" title="Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat">Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat</a> </td> <td>2024 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chengdu_Aircraft_Industry_Group" title="Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group">Chengdu Aerospace</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong</a> </td> <td>2011 </td></tr> <tr> <td>China </td> <td>Chengdu Aerospace </td> <td><a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong-10" class="mw-redirect" title="CAIG Wing Loong-10">CAIG Wing Loong-10</a> </td> <td>2016 </td></tr> <tr> <td>China </td> <td>Chengdu Aerospace </td> <td><a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong_II" title="CAIG Wing Loong II">CAIG Wing Loong II</a> </td> <td>2017 </td></tr> <tr> <td>China </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harbin_Aircraft_Industry_Group" title="Harbin Aircraft Industry Group">Harbin Aircraft Industry Group</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harbin_BZK-005" title="Harbin BZK-005">Harbin BZK-005</a> </td> <td>2006 </td></tr> <tr> <td>China </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hongdu" title="Hongdu">Hongdu Aerospace</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hongdu_GJ-11" title="Hongdu GJ-11">Hongdu GJ-11</a> </td> <td>2019 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chengdu_Aircraft_Industry_Group" title="Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group">Chengdu Aerospace</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chengdu_Wing_Loong-3" title="Chengdu Wing Loong-3">Wing Loong-III</a> </td> <td>2022 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Aerospace_Industries" title="Turkish Aerospace Industries">Turkish Aerospace Industries</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a> </td> <td>2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turkey </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baykar" title="Baykar">Baykar Defense</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a> </td> <td>2014 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turkey </td> <td>Turkish Aerospace Industries </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TAI_Aksungur" title="TAI Aksungur">TAI Aksungur</a> </td> <td>2019 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turkey </td> <td>Baykar Defense </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_Ak%C4%B1nc%C4%B1" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayraktar Akıncı">Bayraktar Akıncı</a> </td> <td>2021 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Aerospace_Industries" title="Turkish Aerospace Industries">Turkish Aerospace Industries</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka-3" title="TAI Anka-3">TAI Anka-3</a> </td> <td>2023 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turkey </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baykar" title="Baykar">Baykar Defense</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB3" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayraktar TB3">Bayraktar TB3</a> </td> <td>2023 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turkey </td> <td>Baykar Defense </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma" title="Bayraktar Kızılelma">Bayraktar Kızılelma</a> </td> <td>2024 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Engineering_%26_Scientific_Commission" title="National Engineering & Scientific Commission">NESCOM</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/NESCOM_Burraq" title="NESCOM Burraq">NESCOM Burraq</a> </td> <td>2016 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Pakistan </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Global_Industrial_Defence_Solutions" title="Global Industrial Defence Solutions">GIDS</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/GIDS_Shahpar-2" class="mw-redirect" title="GIDS Shahpar-2">GIDS Shahpar-2</a> </td> <td>2021 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Defence_Research_and_Development_Organisation" title="Defence Research and Development Organisation">DRDO</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/DRDO_Ghatak" title="DRDO Ghatak">DRDO Ghatak</a> </td> <td>2023 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Qods_Aviation_Industry_Company" title="Qods Aviation Industry Company">Qods Aviation</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Qods_Mohajer-6" title="Qods Mohajer-6">Qods Mohajer-6</a> </td> <td>2017 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Iran </td> <td>Qods Aviation </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Qods_Mohajer_10" title="Qods Mohajer 10">Qods Mohajer-10</a> </td> <td>2023 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Iran </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Iran_Aircraft_Manufacturing_Industries_Corporation" title="Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries Corporation">HESA</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shahed_129" title="Shahed 129">HESA Shahed-129</a> </td> <td>2012 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Iran </td> <td>HESA </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shahed_149_Gaza" title="Shahed 149 Gaza">HESA Shahed-149 Gaza</a> </td> <td>2022 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Iran </td> <td>HESA </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shahed_Saegheh" title="Shahed Saegheh">HESA Shahed 191 Saegheh</a> </td> <td>2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Iran </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Air_Force" title="Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force">IRIAF</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaman_22_(UAV)" title="Kaman 22 (UAV)">Kaman 22</a> </td> <td>2021 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> </td> <td>Kronshtadt group </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kronshtadt_Orion" title="Kronshtadt Orion">Kronshtadt Orion</a> </td> <td>2020 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Milkor_(Pty)_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="Milkor (Pty) Ltd">Milkor</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Milkor_380" title="Milkor 380">Milkor 380</a> </td> <td>2023 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Some reconnaissance drones that have armed capability include the <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow#CH-92" title="CASC Rainbow">CASC CH-92</a>, <a href="/wiki/IAI_Eitan" title="IAI Eitan">IAI Eitan</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Ababil-3" class="mw-redirect" title="Ababil-3">Ababil-3</a>, <a href="/wiki/HESA_Ababil" title="HESA Ababil">Ababil-5</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hamaseh" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamaseh">Hamaseh</a>. Some commercial drones such as <a href="/wiki/DJI_Mavic" title="DJI Mavic">DJI Mavic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phantom_(unmanned_aerial_vehicle_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Phantom (unmanned aerial vehicle series)">Phantom</a> have been modified to carry light explosives for combat missions in recent wars. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Future">Future</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Future"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Below is a table of some technology demonstrators and projects in development: </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Taranis_Test_Flight.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Taranis_Test_Flight.jpg/220px-Taranis_Test_Flight.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Taranis_Test_Flight.jpg/330px-Taranis_Test_Flight.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Taranis_Test_Flight.jpg/440px-Taranis_Test_Flight.jpg 2x" data-file-width="948" data-file-height="616" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/BAE_Taranis" class="mw-redirect" title="BAE Taranis">BAE Taranis</a> model is one of the larger designs</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Aircraft </th> <th>Country </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/AVIC_Dark_Sword" title="AVIC Dark Sword">AVIC Dark Sword</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> </td> <td>Technology demonstrator/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems_Corax" title="BAE Systems Corax">BAE Systems Corax</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </td> <td>Technology demonstrator </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems_Taranis" title="BAE Systems Taranis">BAE Systems Taranis</a> </td> <td>United Kingdom </td> <td>Technology demonstrator </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_Phantom_Ray" title="Boeing Phantom Ray">Boeing Phantom Ray</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> </td> <td>Under development/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dassault_nEUROn" title="Dassault nEUROn">Dassault nEUROn</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> </td> <td>Experimental <a href="/wiki/Stealth_aircraft" title="Stealth aircraft">stealth</a> UCAV </td></tr> <tr> <td>DRDO Archer-NG </td> <td><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> </td> <td>Under development </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/DRDO_Ghatak" title="DRDO Ghatak">DRDO Ghatak</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> </td> <td>Under development/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eurodrone" title="Eurodrone">Eurodrone</a> </td> <td>European Union </td> <td>Under development </td></tr> <tr> <td>EMC Operations Anaconda </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </td> <td>Under development/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/CATS_Warrior" class="mw-redirect" title="CATS Warrior">HAL CATS Warrior</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> </td> <td>Under development </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47A_Pegasus" title="Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus">Northrop Grumman X-47A</a> </td> <td>United States </td> <td>Technology demonstrator inc. <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B" title="Northrop Grumman X-47B">X-47B</a> / <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47C" class="mw-redirect" title="Northrop Grumman X-47C">C</a> variants </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Baykar_Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma" class="mw-redirect" title="Baykar Bayraktar Kızılelma">Bayraktar Kızılelma</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> </td> <td>Under development/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka-3" title="TAI Anka-3">TAI Anka-3</a> </td> <td>Turkey </td> <td>Under development/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Atob%C3%A1_XR" title="Atobá XR">Atobá XR</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> </td> <td>Under development/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sukhoi_S-70_Okhotnik-B" title="Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B">S-70 Okhotnik-B</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> </td> <td>Under development/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/IAIO_Qaher-313" title="IAIO Qaher-313">IAIO Qaher-313</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> </td> <td>Under development/testing </td></tr> <tr> <td>Qods Mohajer-7 </td> <td>Iran </td> <td>Under development </td></tr> <tr> <td>Qods Mohajer-9 </td> <td>Iran </td> <td>Under development </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Autonomous_Flying_wing_Tech.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Autonomous_Flying_wing_Tech.jpg/220px-Autonomous_Flying_wing_Tech.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Autonomous_Flying_wing_Tech.jpg/330px-Autonomous_Flying_wing_Tech.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Autonomous_Flying_wing_Tech.jpg/440px-Autonomous_Flying_wing_Tech.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2018" data-file-height="1345" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/DRDO_Ghatak" title="DRDO Ghatak">DRDO Ghatak</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Israel">Israel</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Israel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Elbit_Hermes_450">Elbit Hermes 450</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Elbit Hermes 450"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Elbit_Hermes_450" title="Elbit Hermes 450">Elbit Hermes 450</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zik_Squadron_(Hermes_450),_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Zik_Squadron_%28Hermes_450%29%2C_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Zik_Squadron_%28Hermes_450%29%2C_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Zik_Squadron_%28Hermes_450%29%2C_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Zik_Squadron_%28Hermes_450%29%2C_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Zik_Squadron_%28Hermes_450%29%2C_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Zik_Squadron_%28Hermes_450%29%2C_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2130" data-file-height="1490" /></a><figcaption>An <a href="/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" title="Israeli Air Force">IAF</a> <a href="/wiki/Elbit_Hermes_450" title="Elbit Hermes 450">Hermes 450</a> from <a href="/wiki/200_Squadron_(Israel)" title="200 Squadron (Israel)">200 Squadron</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Israeli_Air_Force" title="Israeli Air Force">Israeli Air Force</a>, which operates a squadron of <a href="/wiki/Hermes_450" class="mw-redirect" title="Hermes 450">Hermes 450s</a> out of <a href="/wiki/Palmachim_Airbase" title="Palmachim Airbase">Palmachim Airbase</a> south of <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, has adapted the Hermes 450 for use as an assault UAV, reportedly equipping it with two <a href="/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire" title="AGM-114 Hellfire">Hellfire</a> missiles or, according to various sources, two <a href="/wiki/RAFAEL_Armament_Development_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="RAFAEL Armament Development Authority">Rafael</a>-made missiles. According to Israeli,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" title="State of Palestine">Palestinian</a>, Lebanese, and independent reports, the Israeli assault UAV has been used in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> and was used intensively in the <a href="/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict">Second Lebanon War</a>. Israel has not denied this capability, but to date, its policy has been to not officially confirm it either.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turkey">Turkey</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Turkey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="TAI_Aksungur">TAI Aksungur</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: TAI Aksungur"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/TAI_Aksungur" title="TAI Aksungur">TAI Aksungur</a></div> <p>TAI Aksungur is a built by <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Aerospace_Industries" title="Turkish Aerospace Industries">Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Armed_Forces" title="Turkish Armed Forces">Turkish Armed Forces</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-j360_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-j360-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ds1_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ds1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dn1_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dn1-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tai_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tai-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Using existing technology from the <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a> series of drones, it is the manufacturer's largest drone,<sup id="cite_ref-FlightglobalDebut_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FlightglobalDebut-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with payload capacity for mission-specific equipment. It is intended to be used for long-term surveillance, signals intelligence, maritime patrol missions, or as an UCAV. The first unit was delivered to the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Naval_Forces" title="Turkish Naval Forces">Turkish Naval Forces</a> on 20 October 2021. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Bayraktar_Kizilelma">Bayraktar Kizilelma</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Bayraktar Kizilelma"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma" title="Bayraktar Kızılelma">Bayraktar Kızılelma</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma_on_the_deck_of_TCG_Anadolu_(L-400)_-_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma_on_the_deck_of_TCG_Anadolu_%28L-400%29_-_2.jpg/220px-Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma_on_the_deck_of_TCG_Anadolu_%28L-400%29_-_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma_on_the_deck_of_TCG_Anadolu_%28L-400%29_-_2.jpg/330px-Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma_on_the_deck_of_TCG_Anadolu_%28L-400%29_-_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma_on_the_deck_of_TCG_Anadolu_%28L-400%29_-_2.jpg/440px-Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma_on_the_deck_of_TCG_Anadolu_%28L-400%29_-_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8000" data-file-height="6000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lelma" title="Bayraktar Kızılelma">Baykar Kızılelma</a> is a jet-engine UCAV developed for the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Air_Force" title="Turkish Air Force">Turkish Air Force</a> and <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Naval_Forces" title="Turkish Naval Forces">Turkish Navy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Baykar_MIUS_Official_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baykar_MIUS_Official-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Bayraktar Kızılelma is a proposed jet-powered, single-engine, low-observable, supersonic, carrier-capable unmanned combat aircraft in development by <a href="/wiki/Baykar" title="Baykar">Baykar</a>, famous for its <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>. On 12 March 2022, <a href="/wiki/Sel%C3%A7uk_Bayraktar" title="Selçuk Bayraktar">Selçuk Bayraktar</a>, CTO of Baykar announced that the first prototype of the Bayraktar Kızılelma has entered the production line.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="TAI_Anka-3">TAI Anka-3</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: TAI Anka-3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka#Anka-3" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka 3</a> is the code-name for the new single engine UCAV being developed by TAI.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It will have a <a href="/wiki/Flying_wing" title="Flying wing">flying wing</a> form,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and will feature low-observable stealth technology. The role of the aircraft will be <a href="/wiki/Suppression_of_Enemy_Air_Defenses" title="Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses">suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Penetrator_(aircraft)" title="Penetrator (aircraft)">penetration</a> and bomber.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="BAE_Systems_Taranis">BAE Systems Taranis</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: BAE Systems Taranis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems_Taranis" title="BAE Systems Taranis">BAE Systems Taranis</a></div> <p>Taranis is a British demonstrator program for unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology. It is part of the UK's Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicle (Experimental) (SUAV[E]) program. BAE describes Taranis's role in this context as following: "This £124m, four -year programme is part of the UK Government's Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicle Experiment (SUAVE) and will result in a UCAV demonstrator with fully integrated autonomous systems and low observable features." </p><p>The Taranis demonstrator will have an MTOW (Maximum Takeoff Weight) of about 8000 kilograms and be of comparable size to the <a href="/wiki/BAE_Hawk" class="mw-redirect" title="BAE Hawk">BAE Hawk</a> – making it one of the world's largest UAVs. It will be stealthy, fast, and able to deploy a range of munitions over a number of targets, as well as being capable of defending itself against manned and other unmanned enemy aircraft. The first steel was cut in September 2007 and ground testing started in early 2009. The first flight of the Taranis took place in August 2013 in Woomera, Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The demonstrator will have two internal weapons bays. With the inclusion of "full autonomy" the intention is thus for this platform to be able to "think for itself" for a large part of the mission.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Battlefield_UAVs_of_the_United_States" title="Battlefield UAVs of the United States">Battlefield UAVs of the United States</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="J-UCAS">J-UCAS</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: J-UCAS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Joint_Unmanned_Combat_Air_Systems" title="Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems">Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boeing_X-45" title="Boeing X-45">Boeing X-45</a> UCAV (TD)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-47_Pegasus" class="mw-redirect" title="X-47 Pegasus">Northrop-Grumman X-47 Pegasus</a></li></ul> <p><b>Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems</b>, or <b>J-UCAS</b>, was the name for the joint <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a>/<a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">U.S. Air Force</a> unmanned combat air vehicle procurement project. J-UCAS was managed by DARPA, the <a href="/wiki/Defense_Advanced_Research_Projects_Agency" class="mw-redirect" title="Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency</a>. In the 2006 <a href="/wiki/Quadrennial_Defense_Review" title="Quadrennial Defense Review">Quadrennial Defense Review</a>, the J-UCAS program was terminated.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The program would have used stealth technologies and allowed UCAVs to be armed with precision-guided weapons such as <a href="/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition" title="Joint Direct Attack Munition">Joint Direct Attack Munition</a> (JDAM) or precision miniature munitions, such as the <a href="/wiki/Small-Diameter_Bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Small-Diameter Bomb">Small-Diameter Bomb</a>, which are used to suppress enemy air defenses. Controllers could have used real-time data sources, including satellites, to plan for and respond to changes on and around the battlefield. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:X-47B_operating_in_the_Atlantic_Test_Range_(modified).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/X-47B_operating_in_the_Atlantic_Test_Range_%28modified%29.jpg/220px-X-47B_operating_in_the_Atlantic_Test_Range_%28modified%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/X-47B_operating_in_the_Atlantic_Test_Range_%28modified%29.jpg/330px-X-47B_operating_in_the_Atlantic_Test_Range_%28modified%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/X-47B_operating_in_the_Atlantic_Test_Range_%28modified%29.jpg/440px-X-47B_operating_in_the_Atlantic_Test_Range_%28modified%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2757" data-file-height="1798" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B" title="Northrop Grumman X-47B">X-47B</a> UCAV technology demonstrator</figcaption></figure> <p>The program was later revitalized into <a href="/wiki/UCAS-D" class="mw-redirect" title="UCAS-D">UCAS-D</a>, a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> program designed to develop a carrier-based unmanned aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="N-UCAS">N-UCAS</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N-UCAS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/UCAS-D" class="mw-redirect" title="UCAS-D">UCAS-D</a> and <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B" title="Northrop Grumman X-47B">Northrop Grumman X-47B</a> are the U.S. Navy-only successors to the J-UCAS, which was canceled in 2006. Boeing is also working on the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_X-45#X-45N" title="Boeing X-45">X-45N</a> in this sector. </p><p>In a New Year 2011 editorial titled "China's Naval Ambitions", <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> editorial board argued that "[t]he Pentagon must accelerate efforts to make American naval forces in Asia less vulnerable to <a href="/wiki/Carrier_killer" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrier killer">Chinese missile threats</a> by giving them the means to project their deterrent power from further offshore. Cutting back purchases of the Navy's <a href="/wiki/Zumwalt_class_destroyer" class="mw-redirect" title="Zumwalt class destroyer">DDG-1000 destroyer</a> (with its deficient missile defense system) was a first step. A bigger one would be to reduce the Navy's reliance on short-range manned strike aircraft like the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_F/A-18E/F_Super_Hornet" title="Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet">F-18</a> and the <a href="/wiki/F-35C" class="mw-redirect" title="F-35C">F-35</a>, in favor of the carrier-launched N-UCAS ...."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 6 January 2011, the DOD announced that this would be one area of additional investment in the 2012 budget request.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="USAF_Hunter-Killer">USAF Hunter-Killer</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: USAF Hunter-Killer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/USAF_Hunter-Killer" title="USAF Hunter-Killer">USAF Hunter-Killer</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Model_395" class="mw-redirect" title="Scaled Composites Model 395">Scaled Composites Model 395</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Model_396" class="mw-redirect" title="Scaled Composites Model 396">Scaled Composites Model 396</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Atomics" title="General Atomics">General Atomics</a> <a href="/wiki/MQ-9_Reaper" class="mw-redirect" title="MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a> (originally the <a href="/wiki/MQ-1_Predator" class="mw-redirect" title="MQ-1 Predator">Predator</a> B)</li> <li>Aurora Flight Sciences/<a href="/wiki/Israel_Aircraft_Industries" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel Aircraft Industries">Israel Aircraft Industries</a> Eagle/Heron 2</li> <li>Unnamed <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Martin" title="Lockheed Martin">Lockheed Martin</a> entry</li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> has shifted its UCAV program from medium-range <a href="/wiki/Military_tactics" title="Military tactics">tactical</a> <a href="/wiki/Strike_aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike aircraft">strike aircraft</a> to long-range <a href="/wiki/Strategic_bomber" title="Strategic bomber">strategic bombers</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The technology of the Long Range Strike program is based on the <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Polecat" title="Lockheed Martin Polecat">Lockheed Martin Polecat</a> demonstrator. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Multinational">Multinational</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Multinational"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>EADS Surveyor</b>: The EADS "Surveyor" is still in preliminary investigation phase. It will be a fixed-wing, jet-powered UAV and is being positioned as a replacement for the CL-289. <a href="/wiki/EADS" class="mw-redirect" title="EADS">EADS</a> is currently working on a demonstrator, the "Carapas", modified from an Italian Mirach 100 drone. The production Surveyor would be a stealthy machine with a top speed of 850 km/h (530 mph), an endurance of up to three hours, and capable of carrying a sophisticated sensor payload, including SIGINT gear. It would also be able to carry external loads, such as air-dropped sensors or light munitions.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non-state_actors">Non-state actors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Non-state actors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the mid-2010s, the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a> terrorist group began attaching explosives to commercially-available <a href="/wiki/Quadcopter" title="Quadcopter">quadcopters</a> such as the Chinese-made <a href="/wiki/Phantom_(unmanned_aerial_vehicle_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Phantom (unmanned aerial vehicle series)">DJI Phantom</a> to bomb military targets in <a href="/wiki/Territory_of_the_Islamic_State" title="Territory of the Islamic State">Iraq and Syria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Mosul_(2016%E2%80%9317)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Mosul (2016–17)">2016–17 battle of Mosul</a>, the Islamic State reportedly used drones as surveillance and weapons delivery platforms, using improvised cradles to drop grenades and other explosives.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An Islamic State drone facility was notably targeted by <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> strike aircraft during the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Militant groups during the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a> have also reportedly used UAVs in attacks, one example being a swarm of drones armed with bombs attacking Russian bases in western Syria in early January 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Starting in the 2020s, <a href="/wiki/Drug_cartel#Mexico" title="Drug cartel">Mexican drug cartels</a> began dropping reportedly hundreds of drone-carried bombs targeting both security forces and enemy gangs during turf wars.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Counter_drone_tactics">Counter drone tactics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Counter drone tactics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There has been widespread use of drones in the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russo-Ukrainian War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ukrainian soldiers use GPS signals to guide a drone to find Russian artillery and to guide Ukrainian artillery. Jamming these drone GPS signals cause drones to operate less effectively,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as the operators of drones have to rely on pre-programmed routes through areas of jamming until communications can be restored. Other systems supplied by the West rely on automation.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Systems like the <a href="/wiki/AeroVironment_Switchblade" title="AeroVironment Switchblade">AeroVironment Switchblade</a> can find targets autonomously, requiring human permission only to engage found targets.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2022 a video appeared on the web showing two drones colliding and one being rendered unflyable as a result.<sup id="cite_ref-Newdick_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newdick-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was claimed that the filming drone was Ukrainian and the one destroyed was Russian.<sup id="cite_ref-Newdick_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newdick-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If this is the case it would be the first recorded case of drone on drone combat.<sup id="cite_ref-Newdick_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newdick-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 27 December 2022 North Korea sent five drones over the border. One reaching Seoul, all five returned to the North, despite a five-hour chase involving fighter jets and attack helicopters with some 100 rounds being fired. A South Korean <a href="/wiki/KAI_KT-1_Woongbi" title="KAI KT-1 Woongbi">KAI KT-1 Woongbi</a> crashed although both crew survived. The <a href="/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff_(South_Korea)" title="Joint Chiefs of Staff (South Korea)">Joint Chiefs of Staff (South Korea)</a> released a statement in which it said that while it can stop attack drones, its ability to stop smaller spy drones is "limited". A senior official, Kang Shin-chul, said: "Our military's lack of preparedness has caused a lot of concern to the people…actively employ detection devices to spot the enemy's drone from an early stage and aggressively deploy strike assets". The South Korean President <a href="/wiki/Yoon_Suk-yeol" class="mw-redirect" title="Yoon Suk-yeol">Yoon Suk-yeol</a> has indicated that South Korea will invest in stealthy drones that could penetrate North Korea, with the creation of a new military unit.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The South Korean Defence Ministry announced a new series of anti-drone measures, planning to spend some 560 billion won over the next five years. The money will go towards four new initiatives. One is an airborne laser that will be used to destroy larger drones whilst a jammer would be used on smaller drones. A new counter drone unit, made up of two squadrons, would also be created. The laser is already in the test phase and is expected to become operational in 2027. The jamming system has been described as "soft kill".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Error_in_target_selection">Error in target selection</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Error in target selection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are only estimates of the magnitude of the errors in target selection. However, they do occur and some of them become known. </p><p>One fatal "error" happened in December 2023, when the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Army" title="Nigerian Army">Nigerian army</a> accidentally hit a village in <a href="/wiki/Kaduna_State" title="Kaduna State">northwestern Nigeria</a> killing 85 civilians celebrating a Muslim festival.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The army said they thought the people were rebels.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ethics_and_laws">Ethics and laws</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Ethics and laws"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Targeted_killing" title="Targeted killing">Targeted killing</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civilian_casualties">Civilian casualties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Civilian casualties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Israel_2">Israel</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Israel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 2009, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> reported allegations that Israeli UAVs armed with missiles killed 48 <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian people">Palestinian civilians</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a>, including two small children in a field and a group of women and girls in an otherwise empty street.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June, <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> investigated six UAV attacks that were reported to have resulted in civilian casualties and alleged that Israeli forces either failed to take all feasible precautions to verify that the targets were combatants or failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_States_2">United States</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Disposition_Matrix" title="Disposition Matrix">Disposition Matrix</a> and <a href="/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._drone_strikes" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes">Civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Collateral_damage" title="Collateral damage">Collateral damage</a> of <a href="/wiki/Civilians" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilians">civilians</a> still takes place with drone combat, although some (like <a href="/wiki/John_O._Brennan" class="mw-redirect" title="John O. Brennan">John O. Brennan</a>) have argued that it greatly reduces the likelihood.<sup id="cite_ref-Wilson_Center_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilson_Center-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although drones enable advanced tactical surveillance and up-to-the-minute data, flaws can become apparent.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The U.S. drone program in Pakistan has killed several dozen civilians accidentally.<sup id="cite_ref-latime2_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latime2-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An example is the operation in February 2010 near Khod, in <a href="/wiki/Urozgan_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Urozgan Province">Uruzgan Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. Over ten civilians in a three-vehicle convoy travelling from <a href="/wiki/Daykundi_Province" title="Daykundi Province">Daykundi Province</a> were accidentally killed after a drone crew misidentified the civilians as hostile threats. A force of <a href="/wiki/Bell_OH-58_Kiowa" title="Bell OH-58 Kiowa">Bell OH-58 Kiowa</a> helicopters, who were attempting to protect ground troops fighting several kilometers away, fired <a href="/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire" title="AGM-114 Hellfire">AGM-114 Hellfire</a> missiles at the vehicles.<sup id="cite_ref-latime1_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latime1-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wapo1_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wapo1-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, the <a href="/wiki/Brookings_Institution" title="Brookings Institution">Brookings Institution</a> reported that in the US-led <a href="/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan" title="Drone strikes in Pakistan">drone attacks in Pakistan</a>, ten civilians died for every militant killed.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A former ambassador of Pakistan said that American UAV attacks were turning Pakistani opinion against the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The website PakistanBodyCount.Org reported 1,065 civilian deaths between 2004 and 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a 2010 analysis by the <a href="/wiki/New_America_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="New America Foundation">New America Foundation</a> 114 UAV-based missile strikes in northwest Pakistan from 2004 killed between 830 and 1,210 individuals, around 550 to 850 of whom were militants.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2013, the Pakistani government revealed that since 2008 317 drone strikes had killed 2,160 Islamic militants and 67 civilians – far less than previous government and independent organization calculations.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2013, former Pentagon lawyer <a href="/wiki/Jeh_Johnson" title="Jeh Johnson">Jeh Johnson</a> said, on a panel at the <a href="/wiki/Aspen_Institute" title="Aspen Institute">Aspen Institute</a>'s Security Forum, that he felt an emotional reaction upon reading <a href="/wiki/Nasser_al-Awlaki" title="Nasser al-Awlaki">Nasser al-Awlaki</a>'s account of how his 16-year-old grandson was killed by a U.S. drone.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2013, a U.S. drone strike in <a href="/wiki/Rada%27_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Rada' District">Radda</a>, capital of Yemen's <a href="/wiki/Al_Bayda%27_Governorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Bayda' Governorate">Bayda province</a>, killed members of a wedding party.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following February, <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> published a 28-page report reviewing the strike and its legality, among other things. Titled "A Wedding That Became A Funeral", the report concludes that some (but not necessarily all) of the casualties were civilians, not the intended regional <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" title="Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula">Al-Qaeda</a> targets. The organization demanded US and Yemeni investigations into the attack. In its research, HRW "found no evidence that the individuals taking part in the wedding procession posed an imminent threat to life. In the absence of an armed conflict, killing them would be a violation of international human rights law."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_effects">Political effects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Political effects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a new weapon, drones are having unforeseen political effects. Some scholars have argued that the extensive use of drones will undermine the popular legitimacy of local governments, which are blamed for permitting the strikes.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith_–_5_Sept_2012_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith_–_5_Sept_2012-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On August 6, 2020, U.S. Senators <a href="/wiki/Rand_Paul" title="Rand Paul">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY), <a href="/wiki/Mike_Lee" title="Mike Lee">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT), <a href="/wiki/Chris_Murphy" title="Chris Murphy">Chris Murphy</a> (D-CT), <a href="/wiki/Chris_Coons" title="Chris Coons">Chris Coons</a> (D-DE), and <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT) introduced a bill to ban sales, transfers, and exports of large armed drones to countries outside of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> amid concerns that civilians were killed with American-made weapons used by Saudi Arabia and the UAE during the <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen">Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen</a>. Congress had previously passed a similar measure with bipartisan support, but failed to overcome President Donald Trump's veto.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Psychological_effects">Psychological effects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Psychological effects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Controllers can also experience psychological stress from the combat they are involved in. A few may even experience <a href="/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder" class="mw-redirect" title="Posttraumatic stress disorder">posttraumatic stress disorder</a> (PTSD).<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are some reports of drone pilots struggling with post traumatic stress disorder after they have killed civilians, especially children. Unlike bomber pilots, moreover, drone operators linger long after the explosives strike and see its effects on human bodies in stark detail. The intense training that US drone operators undergo "works to dehumanise the 'enemy' people below whilst glorifying and celebrating the killing process."<sup id="cite_ref-Drone:_Robot_Imperium_–_Longreads_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Drone:_Robot_Imperium_–_Longreads-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Professor Shannon E. French, the director of the Center for Ethics and Excellence at <a href="/wiki/Case_Western_Reserve_University" title="Case Western Reserve University">Case Western Reserve University</a> and a former professor at the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Naval_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Naval Academy">U.S. Naval Academy</a>, wonders if the PTSD may be rooted in a suspicion that something else was at stake. According to Professor French, the author of the 2003 book <i>The Code of the Warrior</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>If [I'm] in the field risking and taking a life, there's a sense that I'm putting <a href="/wiki/Skin_in_the_game_(phrase)" title="Skin in the game (phrase)">skin in the game</a> … I'm taking a risk so it feels more honorable. Someone who kills at a distance—it can make them doubt. Am I truly <a href="/wiki/Honour" title="Honour">honorable</a>?</p></blockquote><p>The <a href="/wiki/Missile_Technology_Control_Regime" title="Missile Technology Control Regime">Missile Technology Control Regime</a> applies to UCAVs. </p><p>On 28 October 2009, <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Special_Rapporteur" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Special Rapporteur">United Nations Special Rapporteur</a> on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Alston" title="Philip Alston">Philip Alston</a>, presented a report to the Third Committee (social, humanitarian and cultural) of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">General Assembly</a> arguing that the use of unmanned combat air vehicles for <a href="/wiki/Targeted_killing" title="Targeted killing">targeted killings</a> should be regarded as a breach of <a href="/wiki/International_law" title="International law">international law</a> unless the United States can demonstrate appropriate precautions and accountability mechanisms are in place.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2015 forty-five former US military personnel issued a joint appeal to pilots of aerial drones operating in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere urging them to refuse to fly and indicated that their missions "profoundly violate domestic and international laws." They noted that these drone attacks also undermine principles of human rights.<sup id="cite_ref-pilkington_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pilkington-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some leaders worry about the effect drone warfare will have on soldiers' psychology. Keith Shurtleff, an army chaplain at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, worries "that as war becomes safer and easier, as soldiers are removed from the horrors of war and see the enemy not as humans but as blips on a screen, there is very real danger of losing the deterrent that such horrors provide".<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar worries surfaced when "smart" bombs began to be used extensively in the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">First Gulf War</a>. </p><p>Stanford's ‘Living Under Drones’ researchers, meanwhile, have shown that civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan are reluctant to help those hit by the first strikes because rescuers themselves have often been killed by follow-on drone strikes. Injured relatives in the rubble of the first strike have been known to tell their relatives not to help rescue them because of the frequency of these so-called ‘double-tap’ strikes. People also avoid gathering in groups in visible places. Many children are permanently kept indoors and often no longer attend school.<sup id="cite_ref-Drone:_Robot_Imperium_–_Longreads_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Drone:_Robot_Imperium_–_Longreads-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writer <a href="/wiki/Mark_Bowden" title="Mark Bowden">Mark Bowden</a> has disputed this viewpoint saying in his <a href="/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic">The Atlantic</a> article, "But flying a drone, [the pilot] sees the carnage close-up, in real time—the blood and severed body parts, the arrival of emergency responders, the anguish of friends and family. Often he’s been watching the people he kills for a long time before pulling the trigger. Drone pilots become familiar with their victims.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They see them in the ordinary rhythms of their lives—with their wives and friends, with their children. War by remote control turns out to be intimate and disturbing. Pilots are sometimes shaken."<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> This assessment is corroborated by a sensor operator's account: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The smoke clears, and there’s pieces of the two guys around the crater. And there’s this guy over here, and he’s missing his right leg above his knee. He’s holding it, and he’s rolling around, and the blood is squirting out of his leg … It took him a long time to die. I just watched him.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/wiki/Airman_First_Class" class="mw-redirect" title="Airman First Class">Airman First Class</a> <a href="/wiki/Brandon_Bryant_(whistleblower)" title="Brandon Bryant (whistleblower)">Brandon Bryant (whistleblower)</a> in GQ<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Back in the United States, a combination of "lower-class" status in the military, overwork, and psychological trauma may be taking a mental toll on drone pilots. These psychological, cultural and career issues appear to have led to a shortfall in USAF drone operators, which is seen as a "dead end job".<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stand-off_attacks">Stand-off attacks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Stand-off attacks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The "unmanned" aspect of armed UAVs has raised moral concerns about their use in combat and law enforcement contexts. Attacking humans with remote-controlled machines is even more abstract than the use of other "stand-off" weaponry, such as missiles, artillery and aerial bombardment, possibly depersonalizing the decision to attack. By contrast, UAVs and other stand-off systems reduce casualties among the attackers.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Autonomous_attacks">Autonomous attacks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Autonomous attacks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The picture is further complicated if the UAV can initiate an attack autonomously, without direct human involvement. Such UAVs could possibly react more quickly and without bias, but would lack human sensibility.<sup id="cite_ref-Foust2013_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foust2013-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Heather Roff<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="context, why is this person's opinion relevant (February 2016)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> replies that <a href="/wiki/Lethal_autonomous_weapon" title="Lethal autonomous weapon">lethal autonomous robots</a> (LARs) may not be appropriate for complex conflicts and targeted populations would likely react angrily against them.<sup id="cite_ref-Foust2013_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foust2013-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Will_McCants" title="Will McCants">Will McCants</a> argues that the public would be more outraged by machine failures than <a href="/wiki/Human_error" title="Human error">human error</a>, making LARs politically implausible.<sup id="cite_ref-Foust2013_89-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foust2013-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Mark Gubrud, claims that drones can be hacked are overblown and misleading and moreover, drones are <i>more</i> likely to be hacked if they're autonomous, because otherwise the human operator would take control: "Giving weapon systems autonomous capabilities is a good way to lose control of them, either due to a programming error, unanticipated circumstances, malfunction, or hack and then not be able to regain control short of blowing them up, hopefully before they've blown up too many other things and people."<sup id="cite_ref-Gubrud2013_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gubrud2013-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others have argued that the technological possibility of autonomy should not obscure the continuing moral responsibilities humans have at every stage.<sup id="cite_ref-Robillard2018_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Robillard2018-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is an ongoing debate as to whether the attribution of moral responsibility can be apportioned appropriately under existing international humanitarian law, which is based on four principles: military necessity, distinction between military and civilian objects, prohibition of unnecessary suffering, and proportionality.<sup id="cite_ref-Kanwar2011_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kanwar2011-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_opinion">Public opinion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Public opinion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Public_opinion_about_U.S._drone_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Public opinion about U.S. drone attacks">Public opinion about U.S. drone attacks</a></div> <p>In 2013, a <a href="/wiki/Fairleigh_Dickinson_University" title="Fairleigh Dickinson University">Fairleigh Dickinson University</a> poll asked registered voters whether they "approve or disapprove of the U.S. military using drones to carry out attacks abroad on people and other targets deemed a threat to the U.S.?" The results showed that three in every four voters (75%) approved of the U.S. military using drones to carry out attacks, while (13%) disapproved.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A poll conducted by the Huffington Post in 2013 also showed a majority supporting targeted killings using drones, though by a smaller margin.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2015 poll showed Republicans and men are more likely to support U.S. drone strikes, while Democrats, independents, women, young people, and minorities are less supportive.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Outside America, there is widespread opposition to US drone killings. A July 2014 report found a majority or plurality of respondents in 39 of 44 countries surveyed opposed U.S. drone strikes in countries such as Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The U.S., Kenya, and Israel were the only countries where at least half the population supported drone strikes. Venezuela was found to be the most anti-drone country, where 92% of respondents disagreed with U.S. drone strikes, followed closely by Jordan, where 90% disagreed; Israel was shown as the most pro-drone, with 65% in favor of U.S. drone strikes and 27% opposed.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Users">Users</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Users"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle" title="Special:EditPage/Unmanned combat aerial vehicle">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2020</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Countries with known operational armed drones: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 36em;"> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/21px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/32px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flag_of_Albania.svg/42px-Flag_of_Albania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Algeria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Algeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a> – <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-auto2_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/TAI_Aksungur" title="TAI Aksungur">TAI Aksungur</a><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg/23px-Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg/35px-Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg/45px-Flag_of_Burkina_Faso.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Burkina_Faso" title="Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hongdu_GJ-11" title="Hongdu GJ-11">GJ-11</a>, <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong I</a>, <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Loong II</a>, <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong III</a>, <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow#CH-4" title="CASC Rainbow">CH-4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tengden_TB-001" title="Tengden TB-001">TB-001</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chengdu_WZ-10" title="Chengdu WZ-10">WZ-10</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Flag_of_Chad.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Flag_of_Chad.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chad.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Flag_of_Chad.svg/45px-Flag_of_Chad.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a> – <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a><sup id="cite_ref-auto2_99-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto2-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_Djibouti.svg/23px-Flag_of_Djibouti.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_Djibouti.svg/35px-Flag_of_Djibouti.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_Djibouti.svg/45px-Flag_of_Djibouti.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Djibouti" title="Djibouti">Djibouti</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/23px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/35px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Egypt.svg/45px-Flag_of_Egypt.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> – <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow" title="CASC Rainbow">CH-4 Rainbow</a><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Ethiopia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>, <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohajer-6" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohajer-6">Mohajer-6</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> – <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> – <a href="/wiki/IAI_Eitan" title="IAI Eitan">IAI Eitan</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> – <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow" title="CASC Rainbow">CH-4 Rainbow</a>, <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Iraq.svg/45px-Flag_of_Iraq.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> – <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow" title="CASC Rainbow">CH-4 Rainbow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohajer-4" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohajer-4">Mohajer-4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohajer-6" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohajer-6">Mohajer-6</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ababil-3" class="mw-redirect" title="Ababil-3">Ababil-3</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/23px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/35px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Flag_of_Iran.svg/46px-Flag_of_Iran.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="630" data-file-height="360" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> – <a href="/wiki/Hamaseh" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamaseh">Hamaseh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saegheh_(UAV)" class="mw-redirect" title="Saegheh (UAV)">Saegheh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaman-12_(UAV)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaman-12 (UAV)">Kaman-12</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaman_22_(UAV)" title="Kaman 22 (UAV)">Kaman 22</a>, <a href="/wiki/IAIO_Fotros" title="IAIO Fotros">IAIO Fotros</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shahed_129" title="Shahed 129">Shahed 129</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meraj_(UAV)" title="Meraj (UAV)">Meraj</a>, <a href="/wiki/HESA_Ababil" title="HESA Ababil">HESA Ababil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohajer-4" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohajer-4">Mohajer-4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qods_Mohajer#Mohajer-6" title="Qods Mohajer">Mohajer-6</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohajer-10" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohajer-10">Mohajer-10</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shahed_149_Gaza" title="Shahed 149 Gaza">Shahed 149 Gaza</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shahed_Saegheh" title="Shahed Saegheh">Shahed Saegheh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shahed_171_Simorgh" title="Shahed 171 Simorgh">Shahed 171 Simorgh</a><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/21px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/32px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/41px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> – <a href="/wiki/Elbit_Hermes_450" title="Elbit Hermes 450">Elbit Hermes 450</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elbit_Hermes_900" title="Elbit Hermes 900">Elbit Hermes 900</a> (armed variant), <a href="/wiki/IAI_Eitan" title="IAI Eitan">IAI Eitan</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> – <a href="/wiki/MQ-1_Predator" class="mw-redirect" title="MQ-1 Predator">MQ-1 Predator</a>, <a href="/wiki/MQ-9_Reaper" class="mw-redirect" title="MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kazakhstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> – <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a><sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Kosovo.svg/21px-Flag_of_Kosovo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Kosovo.svg/32px-Flag_of_Kosovo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_Kosovo.svg/42px-Flag_of_Kosovo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="840" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Kyrgyzstan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a> – <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a>, <a href="/wiki/TAI_Aksungur" title="TAI Aksungur">TAI Aksungur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_Ak%C4%B1nc%C4%B1" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayraktar Akıncı">Bayraktar Akıncı</a><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a> (used by <a href="/wiki/Government_of_National_Accord" title="Government of National Accord">GNA</a>) / <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong_II" title="CAIG Wing Loong II">CAIG Wing Loong II</a> (used by <a href="/wiki/Libyan_National_Army" title="Libyan National Army">LNA</a>)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> – <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Mali.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mali.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Mali.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mali.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Mali.svg/45px-Flag_of_Mali.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/23px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/35px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Flag_of_Morocco.svg/45px-Flag_of_Morocco.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a> – <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>, <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong</a><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/23px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/35px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/45px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a> – <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow" title="CASC Rainbow">CH-3A Rainbow</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow" title="CASC Rainbow">CH-4 Rainbow</a><sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a> – <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Flag_of_Niger.svg/18px-Flag_of_Niger.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Flag_of_Niger.svg/27px-Flag_of_Niger.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Flag_of_Niger.svg/35px-Flag_of_Niger.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Niger" title="Niger">Niger</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-auto1_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> – <a href="/wiki/Asisguard_Songar" title="Asisguard Songar">Asisguard Songar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>, <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong</a>, <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow" title="CASC Rainbow">CASC Rainbow</a>, Yabhon Flash-20<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> – <a href="/wiki/NESCOM_Burraq" title="NESCOM Burraq">NESCOM Burraq</a>, <a href="/wiki/GIDS_Shahpar-2" class="mw-redirect" title="GIDS Shahpar-2">GIDS Shahpar-2</a>, <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong_II" title="CAIG Wing Loong II">CAIG Wing Loong II</a>, <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow" title="CASC Rainbow">CH-4 Rainbow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_Ak%C4%B1nc%C4%B1" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayraktar Akıncı">Bayraktar Akıncı</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_Qatar.svg/23px-Flag_of_Qatar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="9" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_Qatar.svg/35px-Flag_of_Qatar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Flag_of_Qatar.svg/46px-Flag_of_Qatar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="550" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Qatar" title="Qatar">Qatar</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> – <a href="/wiki/Kronshtadt_Orion" title="Kronshtadt Orion">Kronshtadt Orion</a>, <a href="/wiki/IAI_Searcher#Forpost-R" title="IAI Searcher">Forpost-R</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shahed_129" title="Shahed 129">Shahed 129</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohajer-6" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohajer-6">Mohajer-6</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Flag_of_Rwanda.svg/23px-Flag_of_Rwanda.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Flag_of_Rwanda.svg/35px-Flag_of_Rwanda.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Flag_of_Rwanda.svg/45px-Flag_of_Rwanda.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwanda</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> – <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-JanesKazakhstan_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JanesKazakhstan-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ForeignPolicy_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ForeignPolicy-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Vestel_Karayel" title="Vestel Karayel">Vestel Karayel</a><sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Flag_of_Serbia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Serbia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="900" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a> – <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong" title="CAIG Wing Loong">CAIG Wing Loong</a>, <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow#CH-92" title="CASC Rainbow">CH-92A</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Flag_of_South_Africa.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Africa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> – <a href="/wiki/Milkor_380" title="Milkor 380">Milkor 380</a><sup id="cite_ref-Military_Africa_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Military_Africa-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DefenceWeb_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DefenceWeb-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> – <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Sudan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Sudan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a> – <a href="/wiki/Qods_Mohajer-6" title="Qods Mohajer-6">Mohajer-6</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ababil-3" class="mw-redirect" title="Ababil-3">Ababil-3</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Flag_of_Syria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Syria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> – <a href="/wiki/Qods_Mohajer-6" title="Qods Mohajer-6">Mohajer-6</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohajer-4" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohajer-4">Mohajer-4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ababil-3" class="mw-redirect" title="Ababil-3">Ababil-3</a>, <a href="/wiki/HESA_Ababil" title="HESA Ababil">Ababil-2</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>- <a href="/wiki/NCSIST_Teng_Yun" title="NCSIST Teng Yun">NCSIST Teng Yun</a>, <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a> (on order)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_Tajikistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tajikistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_Tajikistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tajikistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Flag_of_Tajikistan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Tajikistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tajikistan" title="Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a>- <a href="/wiki/Ababil-2" class="mw-redirect" title="Ababil-2">Ababil-2</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohajer-2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohajer-2 (page does not exist)">Mohajer-2</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_Togo_%283-2%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Togo_%283-2%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_Togo_%283-2%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Togo_%283-2%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Flag_of_Togo_%283-2%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Togo_%283-2%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Togo" title="Togo">Togo</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a><sup id="cite_ref-auto1_120-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto1-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Flag_of_Tunisia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tunisia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a> – <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> – <a href="/wiki/TAI_Anka" title="TAI Anka">TAI Anka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Vestel_Karayel" title="Vestel Karayel">Vestel Karayel</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/TAI_Aksungur" title="TAI Aksungur">TAI Aksungur</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_Ak%C4%B1nc%C4%B1" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayraktar Akıncı">Bayraktar Akıncı</a><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Turkmenistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Turkmenistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Turkmenistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Turkmenistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Flag_of_Turkmenistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Turkmenistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Turkmenistan" title="Turkmenistan">Turkmenistan</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>, <a href="/wiki/CASC_Rainbow" title="CASC Rainbow">CASC Rainbow</a>, <a href="/wiki/CASIC_WJ" title="CASIC WJ">CASIC WJ</a>, Busel MB1, Busel MB2, Skystriker<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/R18_(drone)" class="mw-redirect" title="R18 (drone)">R18</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bayraktar_TB2" title="Bayraktar TB2">Bayraktar TB2</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong_II" title="CAIG Wing Loong II">CAIG Wing Loong II</a><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> – <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper/Protector RG1</a><sup id="cite_ref-TheGuardian_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheGuardian-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" 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