Jun 072011
 

This is a good article with lots of information, but “autonomous” may not be the technically correct description – yet.  By design and technological necessity, most currently employed systems and those being proposed are more like highly destructive RC cars/planes.

While navigation and balance, etc. are often managed by software, war machines aren’t yet making their own tactical decisions – again – yet.

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