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17. Ah...not surprised. Does make sense tech - wise. Also, I had heard of stories / rumors that the ..

Sat Sep 14, 2019, 12:31 PM

Sep 2019

US Military had fleets of these drones operating in such a manner, old piece of news that I heard years ago, but unable to find out anything about it, but like I said, makes sense.

Thanks for the heads up. I did not know about the gps link, nor autonomous abilities (by which I'm assuming you mean that they loaded up the path for the drones to fly, and then explode once they've arrived.

I've always wanted a drone, but for taking pics of my land in the country, but now that I don't have that land anymore, no need to.

Take care!

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Beat me to it! KPN Sep 2019 #7

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I will fill up 1st thing early morning. at140 Sep 2019 #33

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++Good! Newest Reality Sep 2019 #52

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Apparently their capabilities are mature enough. Anon-C Sep 2019 #9

And they knew where to explode the devices in order to set off the fires...the drones couldn't... SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #10

The new drones from Iran are autonomous and use GPS guidance. dalton99a Sep 2019 #16

Ah...not surprised. Does make sense tech - wise. Also, I had heard of stories / rumors that the .. SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #17

what about the delivery? What's known about that isn't commercially available Kurt V. Sep 2019 #29

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Didn't the orange ass say SCVDem Sep 2019 #25

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WW3 in that case NickB79 Sep 2019 #41

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