SmallSmall, lighlightweight ine tweight, inexpensive dr ensive drones becam s became popular
with consumers around 2010. But drones, or uncrewed aircraft systems (UASs), have been used by the military since World War II. (Search online for “Marilyn Monroe drone photo” to see a not-yet-known Norma Jeane Dougherty working at a Los Angeles munitions factory, assembling an OQ-2 radio-controlled target drone.) Te Vietnam War saw the first large-scale deployment of
drones in combat, and their missions were expanded from simply observation. In this March 1967 photo, a drone anti-submarine helicopter (DASH) capable of carrying two remote-controlled torpedoes is being deployed during a NATO exercise in the North Sea.
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