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Milipol Asia 2019: Fight fires with Chinese UAV

2nd April 2019 - 12:11 GMT | by Gordon Arthur in Singapore

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An innovative fire-fighting solution – a UAS that fires a fire-extinguishing round through the glass curtain walls of skyscrapers – was on show at the Milipol Asia 2019 exhibition in Singapore.

Designed by China Tech Hi Industry Import and Export Corporation (CTHC), a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the firm showed an example of its quadrotor UAS equipped with two 1m-long launchers able to fire dry-powder rounds.

An optional four-tube launcher UAS is also available, with this UAS being larger.

Liu Bing, deputy general manager of CTHC, explained that the UAS would fly to the

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Gordon Arthur was the Asia Pacific editor for Shephard Media. Born in Scotland and educated …

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