Loitering munition

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Invention

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History and politics

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What Wikipedia says

A loitering munition (LM) is a type of self-destructive unmanned vehicle (aerial (UAV), surface (USV), or underwater (UUV)) equipped with a warhead that is typically designed to remotely loiter by a human operator using electro-optical targeting sensors or camera suite and data-link until a target is designated, then crash into it and detonate.

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