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Episode 256: Programmed To Kill

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The History of UAVs

In the late 1960s in Vietnam the US Army was deploying laser guided munitions and so called like the early basically the earliest instances of so called smart munitions. In World War II they kind of create this even crazier one which is like an old B-17 and it's like they actually have a pilot up there for a second he takes off arms the bombs he jumps out the rest of the way is controlled by remote control. Anyways we also see the introduction of UAVs which are unmanned aerial vehicles but really started with these planes that they were launching out of air fields during the first world war.

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