Review the development of UAV in the past century

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the abbreviation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which is an unmanned aerial vehicle operated by radio remote control equipment and its own program control device.

If you think that this high-tech product of UAV has only appeared in recent years, it is all wet. In fact, the development of UAV has a long history. Today, let's review the century-old development of drones.

In the 1920s, the world's first unmanned aerial vehicle was born.

During the First World War in 1914, Britain planned to develop an unmanned aerial bomb, which could fly to the target by itself to destroy the enemy. However, many experiments ended in failure.

In 1917, Peter Cooper and Elmer A. sperry invented the first automatic gyro stabilizer, which enabled the plane to fly forward in a balanced way, and the unmanned aerial vehicle was born. Although the world's first unmanned aerial vehicle was born in 1917, it was really put into operation in Vietnam War, which was mainly used for battlefield investigation.

In the 1940s, drones began to enter the military field.

Before 1935, aerial vehicles could not fly back to the take-off point, so they could not be reused. The invention of the Queen Bee enabled the UAV to return to the take-off point, making this technology more practical. The advent of the Queen Bee UAV is the era when UAVs really started, which can be said to be the "originator of mountains" in the history of modern UAVs. Then drones were used in major battlefields to perform reconnaissance missions.