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TechCrunch: The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

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TechCrunch: The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:05:10 -0400
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Hard not to see this as where ground war is headed: small, expendable machines doing the dull and dangerous work first, with humans still making the hard calls. Useful if it saves soldiers from mines and ambushes, troubling if the leash gets too long.

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Thomas W. / keep the receipts
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