The so-called "war on terror" since 2001 has debunked much of the conventional wisdom about what military equipment a country needs to protect its citizens.

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</p><p class='TableClas'>The UAV has shown, in counter-insurgency and in anti-terrorist operations as much as in war, the critical importance of an &#34eye in the sky&#34.
</p><p class='TableClas'>Unsurprisingly then, India&#39;s Defence R&amp;D Organisation 

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