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Unmanned Air Vehicles

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The growing importance of unmanned air vehicles, UAVs, for carrying out an increasing number of military roles has become very clear over the last decade. They also have civil applications, particularly in surveillance and monitoring tasks, although safety and legislative issues need to be resolved.

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  • British International Conference Proceedings on Unmanned Air vehicle Systems, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Queens Building, University walk, Bristol, BS8 1TR. Note: Conferences were held annually at Bristol University, UK.

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Collinson, R.P.G. (2011). Unmanned Air Vehicles. In: Introduction to Avionics Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0708-5_10

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