US advances in drone development

29 December 2011 Last updated at 08:20 ET Help

Private companies are developing smaller, more sophisticated unmanned military drones to be used for air strikes or reconnaissance missions.

The technology is big business in the US and California has become a hub for designing and building the devices.

And as Alastair Leithead reports, they could soon be used in the US as well as abroad.

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