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AAD2014: Paramount displays new small UAVs

19th September 2014 - 15:00 GMT | by Tim Fish in Pretoria

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Paramount Group has put three new UAV systems on display at the AAD exhibition in Pretoria, South Africa, named Mwari, Roadrunner, and Civet.

Mwari is the largest and is a medium range small UAV system with a flight time of about four hours and an operational range out to 40km line of sight running on a petrol motor.

It is ready to operate in fewer than 20 minutes and has an automatic flight control that allows take-off on short runways to follow a pre-programmed flight plan, loitering over targets in a co-ordinated pattern and a return to the launch

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