how are drones able to fly from one city to another with small fuel tanks?

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How is it able to fly such long distance, without running out of fuel?

Drones for war = one way trip? It won’t be capable to return from a long journey right?

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When considering the popular old Call of Duty famous War Drones like you would think of with the old Global Hawk (UAV) or Predator (Guided missile strike) they’re the same size or only slightly smaller than manned war planes, so there’s plenty of space for fuel.

For the mini-drones and man-thrown drones like quad copters, Ravens, and the first-person bombing drones you can see on combat footage sites those are even still large enough to stick the equivalent of a car battery inside. With how efficient and lightweight they are you don’t need hardly any effort to keep them airborne once they’re up.

The micro drones are the ones with just an hour or two of battery and those are only used for close in reconnaissance and aren’t typically weighed down with war gear.

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