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The US, UK, Australia, China, Japan, India and a post-FCAS Europe are all building autonomous aircraft to fly alongside crewed ones. The terms get used almost interchangeably, but they're not quite the same thing, and neither is the level of autonomy on...
Most every story on this site uses a word that started life describing an insect with no job. Tracing how "drone" got from a beehive to a battlefield says something about how military language actually forms: less design, more nickname that stuck. The...