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    THE DRONE ACHARYA

    Jul 09, 2022 4 minutes
    By PRADIP R. SAGAR

    IN the first week of January 2020, two MQ-9 Reaper drones took off from an airbase in Kuwait and travelled 600 km to hover over Baghdad international airport. Seconds after the green signal, the drones fired missiles to knock out two cars that were leaving the airport. The attack killed Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran’s Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chairman of Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces), an Iran-backed militia in Iraq. The Reapers’ precision stunned the world.

    Two and a half years later, India’s defence scientists showed the world that the country too

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