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China's MQ-9 Knock Off

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Published March 17, 2011
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Check out this video of China's Pterodactyl UAV flying and firing weapons. Is it me, or does this thing look very, very similar to the MQ-9 Reaper? Aplologies for the poor quality.

Here's more on the drone.

Well done to Trimble for spotting this.

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