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Air & Space · Page 6

Air Force switches to gender-neutral 'unpersonned aerial vehicles'

By Duffel Blog Staff · Air & Space Bureau · 1 minute

Filed 5 October 2022 · 1538

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — The Pentagon has directed the Air Force to retire all of its sexist “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” and replace them with new gender-neutral UAVs after a series of internal complaints.

“How do we know it’s not a woman who’s not inside that drone?” asked Capt. Rachel Wilson, a UAV pilot. “Technically, I fly an Unwomanned Aerial Vehicle, so the current title of ‘unmanned’ is inaccurate at best.”

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