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

2.   Boeing officials say lethal unmanned vehicles are a natural extension of the reconnaissance craft.

3.   But commanders had access to real-time surveillance videos shot by a Predator, an unmanned airborne vehicle, and they saw his capture.

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

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

6.   IAI has other businesses, including a helicopter maintenance operation and production of unmanned vehicles, which the IAI official called a lucrative operation and attractive to other companies.

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

8.   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.

9.   In part, specialists blame the reluctance of the Federal Aviation Administration to develop rules for where and how unmanned vehicles could operate in commercial airspace.

10.   Instead of getting constant wear from training flights, the unmanned vehicles would mainly sit in storage.