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UAVs learning to pick up things and move them around

DARPA has been conducting research to teach unmanned aerial vehicles how to pick materials up and move them around.

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Ralph Sherman Parr Jr., a double ace in the Korean War, has died after battling cancer.

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday the government has agreed to send two Patriot missile systems to Turkey.

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Three MV-22 Ospreys from VMM-265 flew non-stop over 1500 nautical miles in just over five hours from Okinawa, Japan to Guam on Friday.
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A study by the Congressional Research Service for the U.S. Congress found that Iran is unlikely to achieve the capability to launch an ICBM by 2015.

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