Military drone (UCAV) (1980s): Long endurance

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.

Ryan's Lightning Bug reconnaissance drones over Asia in the 1960s-70s are the first thick operational file. Loss rates were high; the point was photographs without a prisoner. Vietnam's manned air war remains the larger story on that war's page. Karem to General Atomics to a 2001 armed deployment is the English newsreel. John P. Jumper and CIA directors sit in the political paragraph. The 2010s "drone war" essays are a legal-memory industry.