People examining a full-scale demonstration model of an unmanned aircraft, a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) drone, developed by a consortium consisting of several Indonesian organisations. The MALE drone was recently unveiled at a hangar of PT Dirgantara Indonesia in Bandung, West Java. - JP
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo has expressed a desire to accelerate the local manufacturing of long-range military drones — the first of their kind in the country — to 2022.
The drone, technically known as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), is to be the first medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAV in the country.
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