WEAPON OF HOPE taking flight !
UAVs include both autonomous drones and remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs).
UCAV is an UAV that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries ordnance such as missiles, ATGMs, and/or bombs in hardpoints for drone strikes.
Loitering munition fit in the niche between cruise missiles and unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), sharing characteristics with both.
In the 21th century technology reached a point of sophistication that the UAV is now being given a greatly expanded role in many areas of aviation.
FEATURING
*** 1840 - 1930 ***
1849 -Austrian incendiary Balloon - first aerial assault
1916 - Ruston Proctor Aerial Target - The first unmanned winged aircraft
1917 - WWI - Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane - father of cruise missile
1918 - Kettering Bug
1927 - Larynx
*** 1930 - 1940
1935 - de Havilland Queen Bee - the mother of all drones
1937 - Airspeed Queen Wasp
1938/39 - N2C-2 target drone
1939 - Radioplane OQ-