Africa’s First Indigenous Aircraft Will Compete With Surveillance UAVs
While Africa ’s backyard space program has yet to get off the ground , the continent ’s first ( arguably ) homegrown aircraft has already taken flight . Throughout the continent , these ultralight two - seaters could before long satiate the skies where longsighted - range surveillance UAVs are too expensive to vanish . Precious few governments in Africa can afford the state - of - the artwork Predator UAVs that , say , the US Border Patrol employs , but that ’s where the Advanced High Performance Reconnaissance and Surveillance Aircraft ( AHRLAC ) come in ....