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In the event of a natural disaster, the military is used for rescue operations and is split into two teams, one for rescue and one for relief thereby increasing the demand for manpower resources. In this scenario the additional manpower can be used to focus more on rescue operations there by saving the lives of hundreds of people, by diverting the manpower used for relief to the rescue operations. This project intends to do so by using unmanned aerial vehicles for relief operations by air transport of supplies to disaster affected areas and airdropping them to the designated drop zones. It intends to use a fixed wing aircraft using brushless dc motors as propulsion and would be navigated by GPS and Galileo satellite-based navigation (Neo8M), with the computer of the aircraft will be an Arduino Based flight controller(APM 2.8), a 2.4 GHz Radio controller(CT6B), and the flight data will be transmitted to the operator by a 915 MHz Telemetry Module. The fixed wing design offers high speed and long range on a limited battery life. The supplies would be dropped mid air and would land on the ground using a parachute system.