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Electro-Optics Supplement
July 2004



Unmanned vehicles: one of the hottest technologies going
Unmanned vehicles, without question, represent one of the hottest technological areas in today's military and aerospace industry.

U.S. looks to unmanned blimps to improve missile defense
Under management of the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. government is resurrecting the blimp, which last saw service with the Navy in 1962.

Makers of ground robots ask for better sensors and communication links
Troops in Iraq are calling out for unmanned vehicles, but even more important, they are in desperate need of unmanned ground systems (UGSs) to dispose of land mines and booby traps.

Dawn of the unmanned era
While the U.S. military has used remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) since the Vietnam War with mixed results, recent combat action in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq has proven the utility of military unmanned systems, whether unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), or unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs).

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