Lihiniya MK II
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Lihiniya MK II ( si, ලිහිණියා මාක් 2) is a medium range
unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...
developed by the
Sri Lanka Air Force The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) ( si, ශ්‍රි ලංකා ගුවන් හමුදාව, Śrī Laṃkā guwan hamudāva; ta, இலங்கை விமானப்படை, Ilaṅkai vimāṉappaṭai) is the air arm and the yo ...
(SLAF) and the Centre for Research and Development (CRD) as a tactical UAV system for the national defence requirements.


Design

The aircraft is a HTOL UAV with a
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, twin-boom tail and a single
pusher engine A bank engine (United Kingdom/Australia) (colloquially a banker), banking engine, helper engine or pusher engine (North America) is a railway locomotive that temporarily assists a train that requires additional power or traction to climb a grad ...
with an auto pilot system.
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is tasked with building the Data link of the UAV. UAV equipped with Dual axes Gyro stabilized Day/Night camera with 10X optical zoom with Target Tracking, Geo Location and Motion Tracking.


References

Post–Cold War military equipment of Sri Lanka Single-engined pusher aircraft {{UAV-stub