An invasion of killer drones struck English commuter town Farnborough this week as Boeing Co. and other firms showed off sleek, pilotless spyplanes set to reshape future combat.
Aerospace companies are working feverishly to develop the next wave of aircraft, looking beyond combat jets such as Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) which the U.S. Air Force plans to use later this decade.
The stuff of secretive government labs until recently, pilotless aircraft displayed by Boeing, Northrop Grumman Corp. and others at this week's Farnborough International Airshow underscore rapid advances made in the last three years.
Killer drones known as unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) are the next step in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) such as Northrop's Global Hawk and General Atomics' smaller Predator, which are already being used for surveillance and reconnaissance.
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