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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …