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htuttle

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2. It's autonomous?!?

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu May 16, 2013, 06:53 AM

May 2013

For the first time the Navy successfully launched a drone the size of a fighter jet - weighing 14,000 pounds, with three times the range of the Predator drone, piloted entirely by computer program with no human intervention - from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush.

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