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A drone is designed for un-manned flight, nothing more or less. Sure you can strap weapons to it and use it to make it easier to kill people, but you can do the same with a car. But you can also strap cameras and sensors to a drone and use them to do neat science (like these people: http://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/)



That's splitting hairs.

A military drone is either intended to:

1. Blow people up or shoot them.

2. Find out who to blow up or shoot.

People don't drive cars around like that other than the military (therefore point demonstrated) and mad max...


UAVs are a tool just like any other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle#Uses

Some of them are used for war, but not all. I'm assuming the companies that make "good" drones also make military drones.




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