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2/19/2013
Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) showed off a new "suicidal unmanned aerial vehicle" (UAV) at the IDEX exhibition, held in Abu Dhabi from 17-21 February.
The weapon, known as Devil Killer, is being developed in response to North Korea's shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010, according to a company spokesman, and is designed to be manoeuvred into position to be crashed into howitzers concealed in caves or otherwise difficult locations to engage.
KAI completed basic test flights of the aircraft in 2012 and is now understood to be in negotiations with the South Korean government to take development further. A full production aircraft would be likely to carry a conventional fragmentation warhead, but that has not been settled and the only aircraft flown so far have been inert.
The aircraft itself is cannisterised, with flip-out control surfaces and wings of stretched canvas. When folded up, the whole package measures just 1.1 ft (33.5 cm across), stretching to a span of 4.3 ft when deployed.
Wait wait wait a sec...suicide drone againts howitzers? WTF?!? When i read suicide drone part i though they done something like Harpy but this thing for howitzers?? It must be TV controlled i presume , anyone have an idea how this drone works?