China developing anti-aircraft weapon stealth drones
Q. Which country is developing stealth military drones to evade anti-aircraft weapons?- Published on 10 Mar 17a. China
b. Japan
c. North Korea
d. None of the above
ANSWER: China
China's largest missile maker is developing military drones with stealth abilities that can evade anti-aircraft weapons in another advance for the country's ambitious military modernisation programme.
Drones have become an indispensable weapon in modern warfare because they can play an important role in high-resolution reconnaissance, long-distance precision strikes.
They are also a critical part of anti-submarine operations and aerial combat.
This lends a new dimension to disputes in the South and East China Seas and over self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as a wayward province.
China has stepped up research into military drones.
Drones: Know More- An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or by several other names, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.
- The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy.
- This is either under remote control by a human operator, or fully or intermittently autonomously, by onboard computers.
- They originated mostly in military applications, although their use is expanding in commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural.
- They are also used for other applications such as policing and surveillance, product deliveries, aerial photography, agriculture and drone racing.
- Civilian drones now vastly outnumber military drones, with estimates of over a million sold by 2015.
