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  2. History of unmanned aerial vehicles - Wikipedia

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    During test Baker, two drones were flown directly above the explosion; when the shock wave reached them, both gained height, and the lowest was damaged. The U.S. Navy conducted similar tests with Grumman F6F Hellcat drones. The B-17 drones were employed in a similar manner in Operation Sandstone in 1947, and in Operation Greenhouse in 1951.

  3. Unmanned aerial vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Elbit Systems Hermes-450 taking off Northrop Grumman Bat carrying EO/IR and SAR sensors, laser rangefinders, laser designators, infrared cameras A DJI Phantom quadcopter UAV for commercial and recreational aerial photography A General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, a hunter-killer surveillance UAV Although most large military UAVs are fixed-wing aircraft, rotorcraft designs (i.e., RUAVs) such as this MQ ...

  4. History of unmanned combat aerial vehicles - Wikipedia

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    The large number of drones deployed has also seen high rates of losses, with Ukraine estimated in 2023 to be losing 10,000 drones per month in active service. [32] Some commercial drones such as DJI Mavic and Phantom have been modified to carry light explosives for combat missions in recent wars.

  5. Abraham Karem - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Karem was born in Baghdad, Iraq, to an Assyrian Jewish couple. His family moved to Israel in 1951, where he grew up. From an early age, he had an innate passion for aeronautics, and at the age of 14, he started building model aircraft.

  6. Archibald Low - Wikipedia

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    Another of Low's hobbies was racing cars and motorbikes. He was a regular attendee at Brooklands and at one point invented a rocket-propelled bike, as well as numerous other gadgets and improvements for the internal combustion engine. Low was worried about the number of road traffic accidents that were occurring, and believed speed in cities ...

  7. Radioplane OQ-2 - Wikipedia

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    The Radioplane OQ-2 was the first mass-produced UAV or drone in the United States, manufactured by the Radioplane Company. A follow-on version, the OQ-3, became the most widely used target drone in US service, with over 9,400 being built during World War II .

  8. General Atomics MQ-1 Predator - Wikipedia

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    The CIA preferred small, lightweight, unobtrusive drones, in contrast to the United States Air Force (USAF). In the early 1990s, the CIA became interested in the " Amber ", a drone developed by Leading Systems, Inc. [ 6 ] The company's owner, Abraham Karem , was the former chief designer for the Israeli Air Force , and had immigrated to the U.S ...

  9. AeroVironment - Wikipedia

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    In July 2002 the NASA/AeroVironment UAV Pathfinder Plus carried commercial communications relay equipment developed by Skytower to test using the aircraft as an "atmospheric satellite". Skytower, in partnership with NASA and the Japan Ministry of Telecommunications used the aircraft to transmit both an HDTV signal as well as an IMT-2000 ...