INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
After 12 years of technical hurdles and scepticism, China has successfully tested artillery-launched drones capable of surviving the
crushing load in a 155mm (6 inches) cannon shell.
Five live-fire trials at a western test base confirmed the drones endured launch forces
exceeding 3,000 times their own weight – comparable to 35 adult African elephants on a person.
The advance centres on a pyrotechnic
ejection mechanism co-developed by the Shaanxi Applied Physics and Chemistry Research Institute,...
