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Drone Warfare - History Timeline

  • The first ever drone

    The first ever drone
    The first ever drone was made by Australia. They launched some 200 pilotless balloons mounted with bombs against the city of Venice.
  • idea of remotely guided weapons

    idea of remotely guided weapons
    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
  • cruise missiles

    cruise missiles
    Cruise missiles were, in a sense, proto-drones, miniature versions of what the military had attempted as far back as 1917 in the war
  • Kettering Bug

    Kettering Bug
    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.
    The US Army Aircraft Board wanted a some of around 50 produced.
  • Lightning Bug-Vietnam War

    Lightning Bug-Vietnam War
    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.
  • Reaper Drone

    Reaper Drone
    In 2007 the British had just finihsed producing the Reaper Drone and had thier first attack over Afghanistan.
  • US Started Training People For Screen Piloting

    US Started Training People For Screen Piloting
    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.
  • Obama Drone Campaign

    Obama Drone Campaign
    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.
  • Pendagon Fleet

    Pendagon Fleet
    Pendagon had about 50 drones in his fleet
  • Attacks in Yemen and Pakistan

    Attacks in Yemen and Pakistan
    There were reports of 5 attacks in yemen and 8 attacks in yemen already in the first 2 months of 2013.