Russia to develop new air-launched high-speed UAV based on Tu-143

Russia will start research into a high-speed unmanned aerial vehicle that is launched from an aircraft. To start off, researchers will use the Tupolev Tu-143 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft from the 1970s as the basis.

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Source: Russia to develop new air-launched high-speed UAV based on Tu-143