Berlin sources confirm German interest in unmanned jet fighter

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Berlin - Europe's main aerospace company is well advanced in a secret project to build a tiny but lethal unmanned fighter aircraft, sources in the German capital Berlin confirmed Tuesday.

While the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) shows an artists' impression of the plane, apparently jet-powered, on its website, it has refused to discuss the project, which is code-named Barracuda, and very little information has filtered out.

Last month, the German news magazine Der Spiegel said the unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) had been shown to the head of the German air force and would make its maiden flight somewhere in a remote part of the Iberian Peninsula this month.

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