09-20-2014, 10:32 AM
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Originally posted by punafish
I could have titled this thread "Why no AUVs?" but only Ted and a handful of people would have known what I was talking about. Damn media.
AUV is Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, nice try but no cigar. The reason this dumbed down media popularized use of the word drone is just idiotically wrong because a drone has a specific function, to be a target. That is not what you want a UAV unmanned aerial vehicle to be.
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