Kettering Bug
1918 US flying-bomb experiment -- an ancestor, not a success story. Ancestry or first type-name of Military drone (UCAV) -- history of a class, not a build list.
Historical CIA/USAF drone units, later numbered "remotely piloted" wings, and ROK programme offices -- past or generic institutional names.
Not a current orbit of orbits, not a frequency plan, not a ROK live UAV ORBAT.
Systems
Firebee / Lightning Bug
Ryan reconnaissance drones of the 1960s-70s.
UCAV
Unmanned combat aerial vehicle -- the armed remotely piloted category in this file.
Signature strike
A 2010s legal-political term for strikes on pattern-of-life, not identity -- named as debate. Treaty, crisis, or doctrine caption -- not a launch or employment guide.
Charles F. Kettering
The 1918 Bug's named American engineer -- an ancestor of the type, not of a current airframe.
Lightning Bug
The first thick recon file.
Meters
Atlas scale (not a war)
46
Peak intensity
42
How long it defined a period
32
Doctrinal / technical shift
90
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
50
Film, school, ritual density
40
Hotspots
Experiment and target
1918-45: Bug to Radioplane. Named as historical geography of Military drone (UCAV), not as a targeting list.
Firebee recon
1960s-70s: Lightning Bug over Asia. Named as historical geography of Military drone (UCAV), not as a targeting list.
Long endurance
1980s-2000: Amber to an unarmed-then-armed Predator. Named as historical geography of Military drone (UCAV), not as a targeting list.
Public UCAV politics
2001-16: Hearings, essays, casualty ranges. Named as historical geography of Military drone (UCAV), not as a targeting list.
Market and Korea
After 2016: Exports; ROK industrial lines. Named as historical geography of Military drone (UCAV), not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (1918 experiments; combat reconnaissance 1960s; armed UCAV public era from 2001)
Military drone (UCAV) is bounded as 1918 experiments; combat reconnaissance 1960s; armed UCAV public era from 2001. 1918 opens the usual narrative (Kettering Bug); 2020s closes it (Loitering-munition headlines).
Theatre: From Kettering's 1918 "Bug" to Firebee, Predato.
Place is evidence. From Kettering's 1918 "Bug" to Firebee, Predator-era public debate, and later export politics is where Military drone (UCAV) happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
not a war -- a type; human cost sits in the campaigns that used remotely piloted aircraft Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
UCAV
Unmanned combat aerial vehicle -- the armed remotely piloted category in this file. A material of the Military drone (UCAV) vocabulary, dated to 1918 experiments; combat reconnaissance 1960s; armed UCAV public era from 2001.
A 1960s recovery team for a ditched Firebee is social history.
No ground-control-station layout.