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Today we're looking at the first unmanned aerial combat vehicles that were successfully used by the United State's military: the TDR-1.

Sources:
Video footage courtesy of the National Archives - https://catalog.archives.gov/
Steven.Zaloga (2008), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Robotic Air Warfare 1917-2007
Lamont-Brown.R, The Flying Bombs of Rabaul. Flypast Magazine September 1982.
Newcome.L.R (2004) Unmanned Aviation: A Brief History of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.