Experiment and target
Bug to Radioplane.
Say "1918" before "2001." The public UCAV debate is a late chapter of a long type.
Firebee loss rates belong in the Vietnam-adjacent paragraph, not as a scoreboard.
Timeline
- Kettering Bug
A flying-bomb experiment at the end of WW1.
- Radioplane / Queen Bee
Target drones as a training industry.
- Lightning Bug years
Reconnaissance drones over Asian denied airspace.
- Israeli and other RPVs
A separate public file of remotely piloted reconnaissance -- named as history.
- Amber to Predator
Karem lineage meets a US procurement story.
- Armed public hinge
Afghanistan deployment enters English news.
- Disclosed US numbers
The essay-and-hearing decade of the "drone war."
- Export spread
More states operate armed or recon types -- a market fact.
- ROK KUS chapter
Industrial-national programmes as procurement history.
- Loitering-munition headlines
A later public category -- noted, not instructed.
Eras
Firebee recon
Lightning Bug over Asia.
Long endurance
Amber to an unarmed-then-armed Predator.
Public UCAV politics
Hearings, essays, casualty ranges.
Market and Korea
Exports; ROK industrial lines.
Milestones
1918 Bug
The idea is older than the jet.
Lightning Bug
The first thick recon file.
2001 public arming
The legal-memory hinge.
Loitering-munition headlines of the 2020s are a sequel category -- noted, not taught.
Korea's chapter is industrial and late.