“The drones now snooping over Afghanistan have a longer history than you might think. In 1916, a military scientist conceived of an ‘aerial torpedo’ designed to be loaded with explosives and steered into the deadly Zeppelins on their bombing raids over southern England. In a lecture to the Royal Aeronautical Society on Monday evening Michael Draper, author of Sitting Ducks & Peeping Toms, will lift the wraps off the secret century of unmanned air vehicles, starting with the prototype referred to by the innocuous initials ‘AT’.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/10/the-secret-history-of-drones/
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