Robots at War: The New Battlefield

Perhaps the most telling sign of how critical the teams' work was to the American war effort is that insurgents began offering a rumored $50,000 bounty for killing an EOD soldier. [...] in the prototype stage are varieties of unmanned weapons and exotic technologies, from automated machine guns...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Wilson quarterly (Washington) 2009-12, Vol.33 (1), p.30-48
1. Verfasser:	Singer, P. W.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aircraft Armaments Bombings Bombs Costs Evaluation Military aspects Military weapons Office parks Predators Remotely piloted vehicles Robot Robotics Robots Science fiction & fantasy Soldiers Technology and war Technology application Unmanned aerial vehicles Vehicles, Remotely piloted Verne, Jules (1828-1905) War Warfare Weapons
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Zusammenfassung:	Perhaps the most telling sign of how critical the teams' work was to the American war effort is that insurgents began offering a rumored $50,000 bounty for killing an EOD soldier. [...] in the prototype stage are varieties of unmanned weapons and exotic technologies, from automated machine guns and robotic stretcher bearers to tiny but lethal robots the size of insects, which look like they are straight out of the wildest science fiction.
ISSN:	0363-3276 2328-529X