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PARIS, April 11 (UPI) -- The land military's acquisition agency, DGA, has sequential additional DRAC intelligence mini-drones from Cassidian of France for conveying by 2013.

The DRAC grouping is armored with cameras in the visible or infra-red spectrum, with a datalink to a auto connector send armored with semiautomatic chase via a auto antenna.

Generally launched by hand, DRAC drones crapper stay in the air for up to 90 minutes, and over distances of up to 10 kilometers, by day and night, and transmit the accumulation and imagery they amass in real time.

Sixty DRAC systems have so far been delivered to the land army, which has deployed them in Afghanistan.

"We are very proud to have won this new visit …," said Nicolas Chamussy, grownup evilness chair of Cassidian Air Systems and nous of Unmanned Aerial Systems. "This contract is a dissent of the constituted reliability and qualities of the DRAC grouping in assist with operational grey units in Afghanistan."

The short-range DRAC UAV grouping has been developed for the land grey by Cassidian Air Systems, in partnership with SurveyCopter of France, as was the Tracker grouping from which it is derived.

Each DRAC grouping consists of two UAVs armored with payloads, a auto connector send and an semiautomatic chase antenna. It crapper be packed into two personal rucksacks, thus allowing entirely autonomous missions.