Editing Unmanned aerial vehicle (section)

===Early drones===
The earliest recorded use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for warfighting occurred in July 1849,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YSSPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT43 The Future of Drone Use: Opportunities and Threats from Ethical and Legal Perspectives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227213802/https://books.google.com/books?id=YSSPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT43 |date=27 February 2023 }}, Asser Press{{snd}} Springer, chapter by Alan McKenna, page 355</ref> with a [[balloon carrier]] (the precursor to the [[aircraft carrier]])<ref name="Kaplan">{{cite book|last=Kaplan|first=Philip|title=Naval Aviation in the Second World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pDARBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT19|year=2013|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-4738-2997-8|page=19|access-date=19 August 2019|archive-date=27 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227213802/https://books.google.com/books?id=pDARBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT19|url-status=live}}</ref> in the first offensive use of [[air power]] in [[naval aviation]].<ref name="Hallion">{{cite book|last= Hallion|first= Richard P.|title= Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War|url= https://archive.org/details/takingflightinve0000hall|url-access= registration|year= 2003|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-028959-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/takingflightinve0000hall/page/66 66]}}</ref><ref name="LaymanFirst">[https://archive.org/details/navalaviationinf00laym <!-- quote=vulcano balloon venice. --> Naval Aviation in the First World War: Its Impact and Influence], R. D. Layman, page 56</ref><ref name="RennerFirst">{{cite book|last=Renner|first=Stephen L.|title=Broken Wings: The Hungarian Air Force, 1918–45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HDoJDgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|year=2016|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-02339-1|page=2|access-date=26 October 2019|archive-date=27 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227213803/https://books.google.com/books?id=HDoJDgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|url-status=live}}</ref> Austrian forces besieging Venice attempted to launch some 200 [[incendiary balloon]]s at the besieged city. The balloons were launched mainly from land; however, some were also launched from the Austrian ship {{SMS|Vulcano}}. At least one bomb fell in the city; however, due to the wind changing after launch, most of the balloons missed their target, and some drifted back over Austrian lines and the launching ship ''Vulcano''.<ref name="Murphy">{{cite book|last= Murphy|first= Justin D.|title= Military Aircraft, Origins to 1918: An Illustrated History of Their Impact|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7pS1QpH8FRgC&pg=PA9|year= 2005|publisher= ABC-CLIO|isbn= 978-1-85109-488-2|pages= 9–10|access-date= 19 August 2019|archive-date= 27 February 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230227213804/https://books.google.com/books?id=7pS1QpH8FRgC&pg=PA9|url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="Haydon">{{cite book|last=Haydon|first=F. Stansbury|title= Military Ballooning During the Early Civil War|url= https://archive.org/details/militaryballooni00hayd |url-access= registration|year=2000|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-6442-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/militaryballooni00hayd/page/18 18]–20}}</ref><ref name="Mikesh">{{Cite journal |last=Mikesh |first=Robert C. |title=Japan's World War II balloon bomb attacks on North America |year= 1973 |journal=Smithsonian Annals of Flight |issue= 9 |pages=1–85 |location=Washington, DC |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/18679/SAoF-0009-Lo_res.pdf |access-date=12 July 2018|archive-date=6 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206005953/https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/18679/SAoF-0009-Lo_res.pdf|url-status=live|hdl=10088/18679|doi=10.5479/si.AnnalsFlight.9|issn=0081-0207}}</ref>

The Spanish engineer [[Leonardo Torres Quevedo]] introduced a radio-based control-system called the [[Leonardo Torres Quevedo#Radio control: the Telekino|''Telekino'']]<ref>[[Tapan K. Sarkar]], ''History of wireless'', John Wiley and Sons, 2006, {{ISBN|0-471-71814-9}}, p. 97.</ref> at the [[Paris Academy of Science]] in 1903, as a way of testing [[airship]]s without risking human life.<ref>[[Biodiversity Heritage Library]]. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31206#page/323/mode/1up ''Mécanique Appliquée. - Sur le télékine. Note de M. L. Torres, présentée par M. Appell''] 3 August 1903, pp. 317-319, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences.</ref><ref>Randy Alfred, "[https://www.wired.com/2011/11/1107wireless-remote-control/ Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public]", ''Wired'', 7 November 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=H. R. Everett |title=Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |date=2015 |pages=91–95 |isbn=978-0-262-02922-3}}</ref>

Significant development of drones started in the 1900s, and originally focused on providing practice targets for training [[military personnel]]. The earliest attempt at a powered UAV was [[Archibald Low|A. M. Low]]'s "Aerial Target" in 1916.<ref name="autogenerated1">Taylor, John W. R.. ''Jane's Pocket Book of Remotely Piloted Vehicles''.</ref> Low confirmed that Geoffrey de Havilland's monoplane was the one that flew under control on 21 March 1917 using his radio system.<ref>Professor A. M. Low FLIGHT, 3 October 1952 page 436 "The First Guided Missile"</ref> Following this successful demonstration in the spring of 1917 Low was transferred to develop aircraft controlled fast motor launches [[Coastal Motor Boat|D.C.B.s]] with the Royal Navy in 1918 intended to attack shipping and port installations and he also assisted [[Frank Arthur Brock|Wing Commander Brock]] in preparations for the [[Zeebrugge Raid]]. Other [[British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I|British unmanned developments]] followed, leading to the fleet of over 400 [[de Havilland Tiger Moth|de Havilland 82 Queen Bee]] aerial targets that went into service in 1935.

[[Nikola Tesla]] described a fleet of uncrewed aerial combat vehicles in 1915.<ref name="armyeyes">{{cite web |last=Dempsey |first=Martin E.|url= http://www.rucker.army.mil/usaace/uas/US%20Army%20UAS%20RoadMap%202010%202035.pdf |title=Eyes of the Army—U.S. Army Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems 2010–2035 |publisher=[[U.S. Army]] |date=9 April 2010 |access-date=6 March 2011 |archive-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180922052536/http://www.rucker.army.mil/usaace/uas/US%20Army%20UAS%20RoadMap%202010%202035.pdf }}</ref> These developments also inspired the construction of the [[Kettering Bug]] by [[Charles Kettering]] from [[Dayton, Ohio]] and the [[Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane]] – initially meant as an uncrewed plane that would carry an explosive payload to a predetermined target. Development continued during World War I, when the [[Dayton-Wright Airplane Company]] invented a pilotless [[aerial torpedo]] that would explode at a preset time.<ref>{{cite web|last= Says|first= Robert Kanyike|title= History of U.S. Drones|url= http://understandingempire.wordpress.com/2-0-a-brief-history-of-u-s-drones/|date= 21 May 2012|access-date= 17 February 2014|archive-date= 26 September 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190926020824/https://understandingempire.wordpress.com/2-0-a-brief-history-of-u-s-drones/|url-status= live}}</ref>

The film star and [[model-airplane]] enthusiast [[Reginald Denny (actor)|Reginald Denny]] developed the first scaled remote piloted vehicle in 1935.<ref name="autogenerated1" />

Soviet researchers experimented with controlling [[Tupolev TB-1]] bombers remotely in the late 1930s.<ref>{{cite book  |last1            = Andersson  |first1           = Lennart  |title            = Soviet Aircraft and Aviation, 1917–1941  |url              = https://books.google.com/books?id=1lzbAAAAMAAJ  |series           = The Putnam Aviation Series  |year             = 1994  |location         = Annapolis, Maryland  |publisher        = Naval Institute Press  |publication-date = 1994 |page             = 249  |isbn             = 9781557507709  |access-date      = 18 December 2021 |quote            = Experiments with a pilotless drone version of the TB-1 controlled by radio from other aircraft started in 1935 and continued until 1939. |archive-date     = 27 February 2023  |archive-url      = https://web.archive.org/web/20230227213805/https://books.google.com/books?id=1lzbAAAAMAAJ  |url-status       = live }}</ref>