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France, UK Will Invest Over $2 Billion in Drones

  • French President Francois Hollande and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron arrive to attend a joint news conference during a Franco-British summit in Amiens.

    French President Francois Hollande and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron arrive to attend a joint news conference during a Franco-British summit in Amiens. | Photo: Reuters

Published 3 March 2016
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The drones will be engineered to enter hostile territory ahead of standard manned warplanes.

France and Britain on Thursday inked a deal to invest more than US$2.2 billion in the development of combat drones, according to a statement from the French government.

Following a two-year feasibility study begun in 2014, "we hope to proceed to the next phase in 2017 to prepare for the full-fledged development of operational demonstrators of air combat drones by 2025," the statement said. "This test program, the most advanced in Europe, will be based on a platform of multi-purpose drones that could provide the basis for future operational capacity beyond 2030."

The aim is to have combat drones capable of carrying out surveillance and observation missions, identifying targets and launching strikes in enemy territory, according to the British defense ministry.

Such drones would be tasked with entering hostile territory ahead of standard manned warplanes.

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