The Interstate TDR was an early unmanned combat aerial vehicle — referred to at the time as an "assault drone" — developed by the Interstate Aircraft and Engineering Corporation during the Second World War for use by the United States Navy. Capable of being armed with bombs or torpedoes, 2000 aircraft were ordered, but only around 200 were built.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) include both autonomous (capable of operating without human input) drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). A UAV is capable of controlled, sustained level flight and is powered by a jet, reciprocating, or electric engine. [1] .

2023年6月6日 · A couple hundred Queen Bees and a few thousand N2C-2 variants flew as target drones during World War II. But the conflict, the largest the world had ever seen, triggered the proliferation of...

2011年5月17日 · See the gallery above for a short history of unmanned flying vehicles, both military and civilian. Photographer and writer Ed Darack plans to document—with photos and video—his attempt to design...

2015年12月16日 · These long-gone systems used servos, gyroscopes, motors, and rotary switches, and they’re all lovingly described in Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II, an encyclopedic history of remotely...

The Radioplane OQ-2 was the first mass-produced UAV or drone in the United States, manufactured by the Radioplane Company. A follow-on version, the OQ-3, became the most widely used target drone in US service, with over 9,400 being built during World War II.

2015年12月28日 · With World War I (1914-1918) providing a crucible for technological innovation, experiments began in unmanned flight. The result was an American ‘aerial torpedo’ called the Kettering Bug. A forerunner to the modern guided missile, it could carry an explosive warhead at up to 80 kilometres (50 miles) per hour.

2017年12月3日 · The name “Queen Bee” is considered to have introduced the term “drone” into general use. During the 1930s the term specifically referred to radio-controlled aerial targets. Once World War II broke out, it started to represent …

2016年10月19日 · Drones, or Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs), have been used in the United States military ever since the end of WWII. The first kind of UAVs were guided missiles. The UAVS could be launched from a B-22 and then guided to their target. The Germans also created a similar technology using radio waves to guide missiles dropped from zeppelins.

2022年7月15日 · During WW2, the U.S. actually developed and used an early UAV. Interstate TDR-1 at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, Florida. The use of drones for combat is nothing new, but early...