Foreign Military Delta-Wing Drones Rapidly Evolving

This delta-wing drone design, perhaps most famously represented by the Iranian Shahed-136, is quickly evolving, showing rapid UAV innovation by Iranian and Russian militaries. Russian company ZALA has unveiled the internal-combustion-engine-powered “Italmas” kamikaze drone shown in the below three photos. The Russian staggered swept-wing UAV has a reported range of 200 kilometers. Russia is also said to have put a GLONASS navigation module in an Iranian Shahed design, and a Russian source has reportedly referred...

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