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  2. Drone warfare - Wikipedia

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    Drone attacks can be conducted by commercial UCAVs dropping bombs, firing a missile, or crashing into a target. [6] In the early years of the 21st century, most drone strikes were carried out by the US military in such countries as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya using air-to-surface missiles. [7]

  3. Unmanned combat aerial vehicle - Wikipedia

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    A British MQ-9A Reaper operating over Afghanistan in 2009. An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, fighter drone or battlefield UAV, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries aircraft ordnance such as missiles, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), and/or bombs in hardpoints ...

  4. Loitering munition - Wikipedia

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    Loitering munitions that are capable of making autonomous attack decisions (man out of the loop) raise moral, ethical, and international humanitarian law concerns because a human being is not involved in making the actual decision to attack and potentially kill humans, as is the case with fire-and-forget missiles in common use since the 1960s.

  5. Targeted killing - Wikipedia

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    Bergen noted: "To the extent that the targets of drone attacks can be ascertained, under Bush, al Qaeda members accounted for 25% of all drone targets compared to 40% for Taliban targets. Under Obama, only 8% of targets were al Qaeda compared to just over 50% for Taliban targets." [72] Minneapolis anti-war protest: 'Stop Killer Drones', 5 May 2013

  6. Two charged over deadly Iran-linked drone strike on US troops ...

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    The Jan. 28 drone attack on a U.S. outpost in Jordan called Tower 22, near the Syrian border, was first deadly strike against U.S. forces since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October 2023.

  7. How to strike back after deadly drone attack? US has many ...

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    President Joe Biden has made it clear the U.S. will strike back after a deadly drone attack killed three service members and wounded more than 40 at a small base in Jordan over the weekend. Biden ...

  8. Search for justice continues 1 year after drone attack that ...

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    A year ago, a drone attack by Iran-backed militias hit a remote U.S. outpost in Jordan, killing three U.S. servicemembers. Despite the passage of time, the effort to find those responsible continues.

  9. Airstrike - Wikipedia

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    Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighter aircraft, attack aircraft, bombers, attack helicopters, and drones. The official definition includes all sorts of targets, including enemy air targets, but in popular usage the term is usually narrowed to a tactical (small-scale) attack on a ground or naval objective as ...