[LINK] Attack of the Drones

[David Boxall]

Who'd have thought?

 From 
<http://theconversation.edu.au/unmanning-the-war-on-terror-attack-of-the-drones-6806>.
> 2 May 2012, 4.21pm AEST
> Unmanning the War on Terror: Attack of the Drones

> During the First World War, America began to build and test its first robot attack plane. Called the Curtiss-Sperry Flying Bomb, it was basically a full-sized biplane with some primitive radio controls. The intention was for it to be able to fly a set course and then drop a bomb. The war came to a close before the kinks could be ironed out of the tests (taking off and landing being fairly critical unresolved issues), but note that the desire of governments to have remotely-operated aircraft is as old as aircraft themselves.
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