It is designing its own stealth fighters such as the J-20, now in the prototype phase.

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Other "tele-romance" devices that are still in the prototype phase are even more science fictional--and bizarre.

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Other creative processes fail when navel-gazing and reflection fail to make it to the prototype phase.

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Dr Swartzlander's prototype phase mask was made using the sort of etching techniques employed to fabricate computer chips.

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But now it appears the wee reconnaissance drones have moved out of the prototype phase and into the war zone.

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