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Kim Jong-un orders mass production of kamikaze drones

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un leads a kamikaze drone test on November 14, 2024. © KCNA.

North Korean engineers are developing new types of loitering munitions, as Pyongyang pushes for their adoption by the army.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a field trial of domestically produced kamikaze drones, state media reported on Friday.

Kim stressed that the country needs to soon move from prototyping to full-scale production to be able to incorporate large-scale use of unmanned aircraft into its military doctrine, the news agency KCNA added.

The agency published photos showing Kim and two other senior officials observing what it claimed was the deployment of several unmanned aircraft, images of which were blurred. The prototypes tested on Thursday were developed by a research facility associated with North Korea’s Unmanned Aerial Technology Complex (UATC), the report said.

Boosters are used for the launch of the weapons, while engineers are exploring various types of air frames, with one model apparently designed with four wings in a cross configuration, according to the report.

North Korean drones are designed for both ground and naval warfare, have different ranges, and employ some form of homing after reaching the end of their programmable path, the KCNA claimed.

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