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[Context ] | Conjectural Damage, by Daniel Swift (Harper's Magazine Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Oct 2015
'Even before World War I,' writes the pilot and military historian Kenneth Werrell, 'the idea of an unmanned, automatically controlled 'flying bomb' or 'aerial torpedo' circulated in a number of countries.' In September 1916 the U.S ... Warfare, the development of aerial weapons in the early twentieth century was spurred by the horrors of the trenches....

Drones set to soar to ever greater South African heights

Edit Business Day 23 Jun 2015
Aerial Monitoring Solutions MD and founder Adam Rosman, who was part of ... Now we prefer UAVs — unmanned aerial vehicles," he says ... By 1930, there was quite a boom in the UAV market for militaries across the world, although they were still intended for one-way use — "they were essentially aerial torpedoes, so the start of cruise missiles", says Rosman....

One of the most important batttles of World War II was captured on film by a legandary Hollywood director

Edit Business Insider 04 Jun 2015
See Also. On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway kicked off between the US and Japan. When it was all over on June 7, it was hailed as a decisive American victory — and much of it was captured on film ... We expect to be attacked tomorrow.'” ... USS Yorktown (CV-5) is hit on the port side, amidships, by a Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedo during the mid-afternoon attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu, in the Battle of Midway, on 4 June, 1942 ... ....

Of Reapers and Predators: A New Warfare Emerges

Edit Real Clear Politics 08 Apr 2015
Initially, the English word "drone" meant both an insect and a sound. It was not until the outbreak of World War II that it began to take on another meaning ... there were the Curtiss-Sperry aerial torpedo and the Kettering Bug at the end of World War I, and then the Nazi V-1s and V-2s unleashed on London in 1944. But those old flying torpedoes may be considered more as the ancestors of cruise missiles than as those of present-day drones ... ....

Hunting Humans by Remote Control

Edit Antiwar 08 Apr 2015
there were the Curtiss-Sperry aerial torpedo and the Kettering Bug at the end of World War I, and then the Nazi V-1s and V-2s unleashed on London in 1944. But those old flying torpedoes may be considered more as the ancestors of cruise missiles than as those of present-day drones....

Manhunters, Inc.

Edit Huffington Post 07 Apr 2015
there were the Curtiss-Sperry aerial torpedo and the Kettering Bug at the end of World War I, and then the Nazi V-1s and V-2s unleashed on London in 1944. But those old flying torpedoes may be considered more as the ancestors of cruise missiles than as those of present-day drones....

American Expedition Finds Sunken Japanese Warship

Edit Chosun Ilbo 06 Mar 2015
American explorer Paul Allen said his research team has found the sunken hull of the Japanese Imperial Navy's massive battleship Musashi, sitting where it was sunk more than 70 years ago by U.S ... Historians say about half of the ship's 2,400 crew perished in the five-hour battle, as the ship was ripped apart by nearly 20 torpedoes and nearly as many bombs ... aerial torpedoes off the coast of Okinawa in April 1945 ... ....

Domestic drones are coming, whether you like it or not

Edit The Examiner 24 Feb 2015
This is the first part of a multi-article series on the subject of unmanned aerial systems (drones) and their impact on New York State, as well as the nation ... What might be more direct a connection can be seen in the World War II with the combination of radio controlled aircraft and aerial torpedoes ... In the Viet Nam War, some 3,400 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) were used for reconnaissance....

How the drone has revolutionised warfare

Edit The Daily Telegraph 27 Sep 2014
Richard Whittle, author of Predator. The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution, discusses drone technology in warfare ... The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution, "There was a time when unmanned aerial vehicles, as the experts would like to call them, they were a niche technology ... "There were jet powered drones that took pictures, some were even armed, they had planes called the aerial torpedoes they tried to build". Related Articles ... ....

DIBACCO: War and remembrance

Edit The Washington Times 24 May 2014
Facebook. Follow @washtimes. If Ronald Reagan was still alive, what part of the GOP would he align with?. View results. An emotional holiday before D-Day, 1944 ... Who could have foreseen how many American deaths this daring maneuver might result in? ... For the chief of staff of the Army, George C. Marshall, the grim mortality statistics hit home ... Hit six months later by an aerial torpedo and kamikaze airplane, LST-750 simply would not sink ... ....

A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: Verdun's storm of shellfire that ...

Edit The Independent 14 May 2014
On 21 February 1916, a single German shell looped high over a wooded ridge in eastern France and fell on the town of Verdun. Over the next 10 months, but mostly in the next four months, the Verdun ridge was hacked and ploughed by 32 million shells. In places, it has been estimated, 10 shells fell on every square centimetre ... From time to time, an aerial torpedo passes, making a noise like a gigantic motor car… ... It is our first shell ... ....

Made-for-movie model of USS Nevada being restored

Edit The Wichita Eagle 07 Dec 2013
RENO, Nev. — From the time Nevada's namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, was launched in 1914, it has held a special place in the hearts of the state's residents ... Well, in a matter of speaking ... 7, 1941 ... "The movie came out in 1970." ... Tasker L ... It was hit with at least six Japanese bombs and a torpedo that opened a 45-by-35 foot gash in the side of the ship ... Finally, an aerial torpedo dropped at midship sent the Nevada to the depths ... ....

>Made-for-movie model of USS Nevada being restored

Edit Seattle Post 05 Dec 2013
RENO, Nev. (AP) — From the time Nevada's namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, was launched in 1914, it has held a special place in the hearts of the state's residents ... Well, in a matter of speaking ... 7, 1941 ... "The movie came out in 1970." ... Tasker L ... It was hit with at least six Japanese bombs and a torpedo that opened a 45-by-35 foot gash in the side of the ship ... Finally, an aerial torpedo dropped at midship sent the Nevada to the depths....
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