Africa has become the next frontier for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations in the years following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with militaries from the US and France, as well as those of African countries deploying them in larger numbers and wider missions than ever before.

Of particular interest is that a number of African countries have begun producing their own indigenous UAV designs, kickstarting nascent aerospace industries and raising the possibility of a whole new set of specialised designs optimised for more specific use-cases than standard export UAVs........

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