"The Drones of the World Wars" Topic
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| Tango01 | 17 Oct 2014 9:25 p.m. PST |
"We think of aerial drones as uniquely modern weapons of war. But they're not. The first combat drone appeared during World War I. And the next world war saw even more flying robots on the front lines. In 1917, American inventor Charles Kettering, later chief scientist for General Motors, created the Aerial Torpedo, an ingenious guided missile. It soon earned the nickname "Bug." A ground crew mechanically programmed a Bug and launched it from a railroad-like track. The small pilotless biplane steered itself via gyroscope and logged its flight time by counting engine revolutions…"
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| Sobieski | 18 Oct 2014 2:43 a.m. PST |
I'm not sure how the early ones differ significantly from a javelin. |
 Mserafin  | 18 Oct 2014 8:24 p.m. PST |
There was a whole program to load up B-17s with explosives and fly them as drones into German sub pens. One blew up prematurely, killing Jospeph P. Kennedy (President Kennedy's older brother). They weren't successful, for a number of reasons. They got one really good shot and almost made it, but the plane got hit by so much flak it veered at the last moment and went into the wall. |
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