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Article: Robo warriors. (military robots and unmanned aircraft )
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- May 1, 1989
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Robo Warriors
In warfare, manpower can sometimes be replaced by electronic power--unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and battlefield robots. Although research into these systems has been on the back burner in the United States, there has been a recent surge of interest in them.
Military experts say that if we ever fight the Soviets and Warsaw Pact nations in a conventional war, NATO forces will be outnumbered not only in troops but also in aircraft, artillery, and missiles. Until recently, our chief counter to these odds was tactical weapons. But if negotiations to eliminate these nuclear weapons succeed, the West still has a lead in computers, ...