First robot on robot kill

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Long talked about, long written about, we are now at the cusp of a new era. A few days ago a Reaper aircraft (the bigger meaner brother of the predator which has become so famous), sighted, target, and destroyed a remote controlled vehicle being used as a bomb by the insurgency in Iraq.

Both vehicles were of course still remotely controlled, and the insurgency vehicle presumably only in a rudimentary line-of-sight manner, but regardless it marks the first robot-on-robot kill in human warfare, and it will be far from the last.

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