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The drone war

Drones fired more weapons than conventional warplanes for the first time in Afghanistan last year, underlining how reliant the military has become on, unmanned aircraft,U.S. Air Force data show.

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The drone war

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  1. The automaton war

  2. A U.S. aviator manages a U.S. Aviation based armed forces MQ-9 Reaper ramble as it taxis to the runway at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan March 9, 2016. Rambles shot a larger number of weapons than routine warplanes without precedent for Afghanistan a year ago and the proportion is rising, already unreported U.S. Aviation based armed forces information appear, underlining how dependent the military has gotten to be on unmanned flying machine. REUTERS/Josh Smith

  3. A U.S. Aviation based armed forces MQ-9 Reaper ramble flies over Creech Air Force Base in Nevada amid a preparation mission May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Josh Smith

  4. U.S. aviators control a U.S. Flying corps ramble from an order trailer at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan March 9, 2016. REUTERS/Josh Smith

  5. Three 500-pound bombs hold up to be stacked on U.S. Aviation based armed forces rambles at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan March 9, 2016. Information looked into by Reuters show strikes by unmanned flying machine represented 56 percent of weapons sent by the Air Force in Afghanistan in 2015, up drastically from 5 percent in 2011. REUTERS/Josh Smith

  6. A U.S. aviator controls the sensors on a U.S. Flying corps ramble from a summon trailer at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan March 9, 2016. In 2015, rambles discharged around 530 bombs and rockets in Afghanistan, a large portion of the number in 2014 when weapons dropped by unmanned flying machine peaked.

  7. A U.S. Flying corps MQ-9 Reaper ramble sits outfitted with Hellfire rockets and a 500-pound bomb in a holder at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan March 9, 2016. Around 300 weapons were sent by the Air Force in the primary quarter of the year, with automatons representing 61 percent. REUTERS/Josh Smith

  8. U.S. Aviation based armed forces ground team secure weapons and different segments of a MQ-9 Reaper ramble after it came back from a mission, at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan March 9, 2016. The pattern may offer signs to the U.S. military's technique as it considers pulling back more troops from the nation, while in the meantime shoring up nearby powers who have attempted to stem a compounding Taliban insurrection. REUTERS/Josh Smith

  9. A U.S. Aviation based armed forces MQ-9 Reaper ramble takes off from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan March 9, 2016. Ramble missions are undercover and have been generally reprimanded in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where local people and authorities have censured them for superfluous loss of regular citizen life.

  10. A man strolls past a graffiti, reviling strikes by U.S. rambles in Yemen, painted on a divider in Sanaa November 13, 2014. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

  11. Various U.S. military automatons are seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

  12. The Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. TigerShark is escorted off the runway in the wake of arriving amid "Dark Dart", a live-fly, live fire exhibit of 55 unmanned aeronautical vehicles, or automatons, at Naval Base Ventura County Sea Range, Point Mugu, close Oxnard, California July 31, 2015. REUTERS/Patrick T. Fallon

  13. Soldiers stand behind of a camera by Unmanned Aerial System "Shadow" amid an official presentation by the German and U.S. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) at the U.S. army installation in Vilseck-Grafenwoehr October 8, 2013. The automaton has a wing-spread of 22.6 feet, an air ship pace of around 110 mph and it's basically utilized as a part of Afghanistan. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

  14. People assemble close to the destruction of an auto wrecked by a U.S. ramble air strike that focused on suspected al Qaeda activists in August 2012, in the al-Qatn locale of the southeastern Yemeni area of Hadhramout February 5, 2013. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

  15. An X-47B pilot-less automaton battle air ship is propelled surprisingly off the USS George H. W. Shrubbery plane carrying warship, in the Atlantic Ocean off the bank of Virginia, May 14, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed

  16. A U.S. Naval force serviceman gets ready to dispatch an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with Philippine Navy servicemen on board a watch watercraft amid a joint yearly military activity called "Carat" at previous U.S. army installation Sangley Point in Cavite city, west of Manila June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

  17. U.S. Naval force Aviation Electronics Technician second Class Michael Erminger (L), and Aviation Machinist's Mate second Class Jonathan Moody plan to dispatch a MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned ethereal vehicle amid flight operations on board guided rocket frigate USS Simpson in the Gulf of Guinea in this March 6, 2012 US Navy freebee photograph. REUTERS/U.S. Naval force/Mass Communication Specialist second Class Felicito Rustique/Handout

  18. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Paxton Force, of Fox Co, second Battalion, seventh Marines Regiment checks T-Hawk, an observation ramble camera at the Landing Zone of Combat Outpost Musa Qal-Ah in Helmand region, southwestern Afghanistan November 5, 2012. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

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