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What does DR stand for?

Dragon Runner (US Marines unmanned ground vehicle US Marines)


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Byline: Mamta03 Responding to an urgent operational requirement QinetiQ, (LSE: QQL) a leading international supplier of military robots, today announced that it has been awarded contracts by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to supply approaching 100 Dragon Runner robots, associated spares and technical services to support of current military operations in Afghanistan.
The group,which has been parodied as being manned by Q-type figures from the James Bond films, has high hopes for its new Dragon Runner, a miniversion of Talon that can be carried on a soldier's back.
Carnegie Mellon, in conjunction with the US Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, has developed the lightweight Dragon Runner Mobile Ground Sensor System that has undergone field trials in Iraq over the past several months.
The family of TALON robots has grown both smaller and larger in size with the respective robotic developments of Dragon Runner and MAARS this year.
Dragon Runner is a small, four-wheeled, man-portable ground sensor that enables Marines to see around corners.
The ground robot runs off a standard military lithium-ion battery, which lasts for about six hours if the Dragon Runner is in full motion, and about 24 hours if the sensor is simply monitoring the surroundings.

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