For the first metre in history , an unmanned motorcar has lock and destroyed another unmanned machine in real scrap . It sounds like science fiction , but it materialise a week ago in Iraq , when a MQ-9 Reaper killed a remote controlled vehicle carrying a dud . The MQ-9 - function by the forty-sixth Expeditionary Reconnaissance and Attack Squadron - destroyed the RC car using a laser - guided 500 - pound GBU-12 bomb calorimeter in southeast Iraq . The commander of the squadron , Lt . Col . Micah Morgan , allege that they “ searched for , found , restore , aim and destruct a [ threat ] with just one aircraft . ” With an entirewing of UAVsin the US Air Force , we wo n’t be surprised to see full - scale remote-controlled and machinelike battles in the penny-pinching future . The question is : if nobody is going to die - except probably civilian on the terra firma - what ’s the crashing point of real war ? Why not just organise a videogame league and get over with it ? [ Aviation Week ]
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