QinetiQ Banshee
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The Banshee, formerly the Target Technology Banshee or BTT3 Banshee, then Meggitt Banshee, is a series of British target drones developed from the 1980s for air defence system training. In December 20
A Banshee Jet 80 onboard HMS Prince of Wales
Meggitt Banshee on display in 2010
Banshee Jet 80 on display in 2017
Meggitt Banshee target drone at the Science Museum, London (2017)
One-way attack drone
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A one-way attack drone is a type of self-destructive unmanned aerial vehicle designed to strike a target by crashing into it with an integrated warhead. Common terms like suicide drone, kamikaze drone
QinetiQ Banshee
…their Sting interceptor drone against a Banshee drone. In May 2023, the UK reportedly supplied Ukraine with Banshees which had been modified as one-way attack drones. The remains of a Banshee were discovered, equipped with a 7 kg warhead, by Russians in Donetsk in February 2024. The drone is either a Meggitt Banshee…
Iranian made HESA Shahed 136
Iranian Arash one-way attack drone
LUCAS, an American reverse-engineered version of the Iranian HESA Shahed 136 one-way attack drone, launching from the USS Santa Barbara