1.   During the Kosovo conflict, the thick cloud meant that some unmanned aerial vehicles took more useful pictures than spy satellites.

2.   A pilotless aerial vehicle monitored military vehicles moving to and from the building before and after the raid.

3.   Franks can sit in his chair and call up live video from unmanned aerial vehicles scouting Afghanistan for Taliban and al-Qaida remnants.

4.   Hoffman said the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs for short, is expanding swiftly.

5.   In addition, the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle has been used with laser target designators and Hellfire missiles for the first time in Afghanistan.

6.   In Afghanistan, for example, such pilots could work with Special Forces spotting teams on the ground or from intelligence data gathered by unmanned aerial vehicles.

7.   It would even accelerate programs such as the Navy Joint Strike Fighter and the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles.

8.   Other sensors mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles, Navy ships and aircraft can detect trace elements from weapons materials being smuggled.

9.   Other new tools include a family of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, pilotless drones that can beam live video of an area of interest over vast distances.

10.   Smaller phased array antennae can be mounted on battlefield vehicles, with satellite-feed data relayed via military command jets or unmanned aerial vehicles.