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The first ever drone was made by Australia. They launched some 200 pilotless balloons mounted with bombs against the city of Venice.
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The idea of remotely guided weapons sparked the interest of Captain Archibald M. Low of the Royal Flying Corps in the U.K. Low oversaw the construction of a number of remotely piloted planes that were fitted with explosive warheads
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Cruise missiles were, in a sense, proto-drones, miniature versions of what the military had attempted as far back as 1917 in the war
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The Kettering Bug, formally known as the Kettering Aerial Torpedo was designed by Charles Kettering after the US Army Aircraft Board asked him to come up with a unmanned flying bomb.
At 12'6 long and 15' wide the Kettering bug had a whopping 82KG war head attached to it which made it a leathal weapon.
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Lightening Bug was used in Vietnam and South Asia in the mid to late 1960s. At the end of the Vietnam war 33 were given to Israel where they were used to undertake surveillance missions during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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In 2007 the British had just finihsed producing the Reaper Drone and had thier first attack over Afghanistan.
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In 2010 the US Army started training people on how to fly the drones on a screen so that the drone attacks and targetting can be done with more percistance and precistion.
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Since 2012 Barrack Obama has gone through with over 230 drone strikes in the Middle East to try and take out Al-Qaeda and Isis militants and leaders.
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Pendagon had about 50 drones in his fleet
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There were reports of 5 attacks in yemen and 8 attacks in yemen already in the first 2 months of 2013.
