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Drone Wars

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The Chainering Bug, the First Airborne Drone Prototype

Inventor charles kettering developed the first drone prototype, or aerial torpedo. It was set on rails and had a gyroscope to keep it stable in the air. The planes have only just taken off the ground when they were already thinking about how to bomb them.

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