AeroVironment's remote-control attack plane may be small, but it represents a big shift taking place in the U.S. military: Today's defense robotics are more focused on killing and less dependent on humans than ever before.

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Washington (CNN) -- A Senate committee began its assessment of intelligence reforms put in place after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by focusing Wednesday on the alleged Christmas Day attack aboard a plane landing in Detroit, Michigan.

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In other words, the odds of a successful attack with a model plane that would cause any significant damage appears to be pretty low.

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The summit also issued a separate resolution in which they called for the extradition of the man responsible for a 1976 attack on a Cuban plane flying between Caracas and Havana which claimed 73 lives.

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The F15 Strike Eagle is the US's two-seater, ground attack version of its main tactical fighter plane.

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On 30 December, a 52-year-old Argentine man died of a heart attack as he was being put aboard a plane at Charles de Gaulle airport for deportation.

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Just as in a plane, you can stall if you assume too steep an angle of attack.

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