Technology Report - China a Growing Supplier of Drones

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VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in English. China recently said it considered launching a drone against a Burmese drug trafficker. Naw Kham was wanted the killings of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong in 2011. China's top drug official said the plan to bomb the drug dealer's mountain hiding place in Burma using unmanned aircraft. The official said the drone idea was passed over in order to capture Naw alive. He was seized last April in a joint with Laos. That China considered using a drone strike a sign of its increasing development of unmanned flight . It also suggests that China is seriously considering using attacks outside of its borders. Peter Dutton is with United States Naval War College. He says China is away from its earlier policy of non-interference in international . He says the country is becoming more active in its interests beyond its borders. The United States has the world in drone technology for years. It is to use UAV, or unmanned aerial vehicle, strikes against targets. In recent years, China has greatly improved its technology. It showed off many of its new models recent air shows in the country. One of the has a range of over 3,200 kilometers. China is modernizing its global navigation system to compete with those the United States, Russia and Europe. The United States unmanned aircraft to only a few of its closest . China is now seen as an increasingly reliable, lower supplier. Several countries have bought or built their own , mostly for surveillance purposes. For VOA Learning English, I'm Bowman. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 25Feb2013)

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