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Chris Jones, of Bristol University, poses for photographs with a vision-based control system using unmanned rotary wing vehicles Wednesday during a Ministry of Defense competition in central London. The competition, aimed at encouraging scientists, inventors and academics to turn ideas into machines for army use in urban environments, has attracted a range of futuristic vehicles and technologies that could one day help British forces to identify and avert threats on operations. They are currently being developed by teams from universities, schools and private business from across the U.K. Finalists will take part in a mock battle in August in Copehill Down, a village that was modeled on an East German one when it was built for military training during the Cold War.