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Mexican Navy presents home-grown unmanned aircraft

By Inigo Guevara

8/29/2012

After 18 months of trials, the Mexican Navy has revealed a production-ready version of its VANT unmanned aircraft system.

VANT consists of two small air vehicles, the so-called Tactical VANT (a small UAV) and the Mini Vant (a micro UAV), and was designed to provide marine infantry units with a company-level organic UAS capability.

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The Tactical VANT.
The Tactical VANT.(Mexican Navy)

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