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Chinese Air Force develops drone designed to shoot painkiller darts at wounded soldiers
A Chinese military medical school has built a casualty-search drone capable of firing painkiller-loaded darts to treat injured troops on the front lines.
The Air Force Medical University has developed the People’s Liberation Army's first casualty-search drone, intended to remotely administer medicine to injured personnel. The unmanned aerial vehicle can deliver life-saving emergency medication into a wounded person's muscle from a distance, aiming to increase survival rates without putting medical personnel at risk. However, the air-ground treatment drone remains in the experimental stage. Developers note that administering medication requires assessing a patient's vital signs and injuries, and loading an incapacitated soldier remains difficult without external assistance.
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