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Turkey aims to produce unmanned tanks: Erdoğan
Turkey is targeting the production of unmanned tanks for its armed forces, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated. "We will carry it a step further [after domestically produced unmanned aerial vehicles] ... We should reach the ability to produce unmanned tanks as well. We will do it," Erdoğan said at a meeting held at the presidential complex in Ankara on Feb. 21.
Five Turkish soldiers were recently killed in a tank near the Sheikh Haruz area of Syria's Afrin district, where Turkey has been carrying on a military operation against the People's Protection Units (YPG) since Jan. 20.
[...] The Turkish president has repeatedly criticized certain foreign countries for allegedly being reluctant to sell unmanned aerial vehicles, armed or unarmed, stressing that unmanned systems could decrease casualties.
Also at ABC.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday February 22 2018, @11:54PM
We've been "modeling" our nuclear weapons, they call it modeling. I say, where are the models? Where is the runway? There's no runway. Little Rocket Man does it the old fashioned way. Because he doesn't have computer. He doesn't have cyber. And we can tell what he has by how big the boom is. The last one, he says it was a Hydrogen Bomb, it's not. Or it's the smallest Hydrogen Bomb you've ever seen in your entire life. Sad!