[1] Unlike unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), this type of system is not designed to carry aircraft ordnance such as missiles, ATGMs, or bombs for drone strikes.
[2][3] Small sized short-range man-portable unmanned aerial vehicles are called miniature UAV also used for battlefield intelligence.
Georgia's defense research center developed a series of small for infantry purpose unmanned areal vehicles, including multiple fixed-rotor variants.
Pakistan's "Air Weapons Complex (AWC)" has completed development of their "Bravo" battlefield surveillance UAV, and is now in service with law enforcement and border security organizations.
The Bravo is apparently a fairly conventional piston-powered small UAV, has a composite airframe, a maximum payload of 20 kilograms (44 pounds), and a radius of action of up to 80 kilometers (50 mi).
In 2009, Kale-Baykar, a joint venture between the Kale Group and Baykar Technologies, demonstrated Block A (named Bayraktar Çaldıran)[6] with its dual redundant avionics system and fully autonomous takeoff and landing capability.