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The Killer Robot Future Is Already Here

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The Kettering Bug? What Is It?

The Kettering Bug is a biplane developed for World War I and it never saw action, though it was flown in 1918. It's kind of the ancestor of a whole bunch of weapons. The Army's story was, oh yeah, drunk pilot. They got out there, fine, they're safe. And no pilot, no pilot at all. "It turns out 15 seconds of 10kW laser energy will really, really mess up flying robot"

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