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Global Hawk being towed before The Jindivik UAV made its
take off. first UK flight in 1960 and
Photo courtesy of NASA was used as an aerial
weapon target.
Photo courtesy of Rolls-Royce
The Kettering Bug (above right) was an aerial torpedo. It was capable 15,000 of them.
of striking ground targets up to 75 miles (120 km) from its launch point.
Photo courtesy of www.ctie.monash.edu.au
UAVs in the UK
An aerial view of the national UAV centre at Parc Aberporth. A recent study suggests
Parc Aberporth in West Wales.
Photo courtesy of QinetiQ that the civil and commercial UAV market,
in Europe alone, will be worth a total of
about 1.2 billion within the next decade.
With this in mind, the national UAV centre
based at Parc Aberporth, in Ceredigion,
West Wales, will advise on all matters
relating to deployment of UAVs.
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