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War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs


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A microdrone during a demo flight at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Chang W. Lee / The New York Times

Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.

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