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All Loitering Munitions and Attack Drones

This group collects the Missiles And Guided Munitions subcategory's loitering munitions: one-way attack drones and man-portable loitering munitions that circle a target area before diving to strike, a weapon category that blends an unmanned aircraft with a guided munition's single-use warhead. Its 4 members are kept in this subcategory rather than the atlas's separate Unmanned Systems And Drones subcategory because each is expended in a single attack like a missile rather than recovered and reused like a reconnaissance drone; moving them is named as a finding for a future relabel lane rather than acted on here.

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1980 1
All Loitering Munitions and Attack Drones
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Loitering weapons emerged in the 1980s for the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) role, and were deployed for SEAD by some military forces in the 1990s.
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