The Papa Delta costs tens of thousands of dollars; company presentations describe it as aluminum-stamped.
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Thunder Tiger's Shahed-lookalike in a Taichung parking lot. Photo: Colin Demarest/Axios
TAICHUNG, TAIWAN — Thunder Tiger Corp. is developing an attack drone dubbed Papa Delta that looks and feels like Iran's ever-popular Shahed.
Why it matters: In the quest for cheap-but-deadly weapons, a growing number of countries are adopting this delta-wing design that's been proven in combat across the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
Новый тайваньский дрон способен поражать личный состав, бронетехнику или здания – это многоцелевая модель.
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