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Hicks has said that by 2025 Defense Department will field thousands of these \u201cattritable autonomous systems\u201d \u2014 or weapons that are more disposable than usual, like a plastic fork and knife compared to real silverware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Replicator is still a work in progress, and officials in Congress and around the Pentagon still don\u2019t know if it can deliver. 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The estimate is difficult to verify, since much of Replicator is classified, including almost all of the drones the Pentagon is actually buying and in what numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only system they\u2019ve said they are buying is AeroVironment\u2019s Switchblade 600, a loitering munition used in Ukraine that has been on contract in the Pentagon for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019ll be multiple 1000s,\u201d Beck said of the first version of Replicator. \u201cI think some of these things need multiple, multiple 1000s\u201d going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, one of the defense officials made a similar argument. 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