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Remote robots: Human-free by land, sea and air

By Phil Mckenna

16 December 2011

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The recent downing of an uncrewed surveillance airplane in Iran offers a rare peek at some of the US government’s most advanced military hardware. But the drone is only one of the remotely operated vehicles in the US military arsenal. Here is a look at some of the other independent interlopers being deployed on land, at sea and in the air. Phil McKenna

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