Military drone (UCAV) (1918): Kettering Bug

Abraham Karem's Amber lineage and General Atomics' Predator made a long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft famous. The public armed-UCAV hinge is 2001 in Afghanistan, after earlier Hellfire tests. From then the English-language file is less aerodynamics than law: targeted killing, signature strikes, and the Obama-era disclosed numbers. This page names that debate. It will not teach you to fly, build, spoof, or arm anything.

TechShift is high (90) because staff colleges rewrote "persistence" and "risk to aircrew." Scale is mid-atlas: a type used in many theatres, not a world war. Korean industrial memory is a later KUS and chaebol-UAV chapter -- see Hanwha and the ROK military pages -- not a 1960s Lightning Bug war on the peninsula.

A target tug that became a legal problem The UCAV is a hundred-year hardware story that only became a civilian argument when the public learned names, videos, and body-count ranges. Kettering's Bug, the British Queen Bee (the word "drone" in some English tellings), and Radioplane as a Hollywood-adjacent industry. The Second World War used these as targets and as experiments, not as a decisive arm.