We are all accustomed to the fact that technology develops and becomes available to an ordinary person. For example, there used to be aircraft modeling circles, where they made radio-controlled aircraft models.
But now QUADCOPTERS are available to everyone, even at a price.
They are constantly being improved, the price is falling, which makes them available to everyone. That is, this is no longer the field of military technology, but also a civilian unit.
Also, everyone is accustomed to the fact that these novelties are the fruit of the scientific thought of our time in the 2010s. And that before, even in military equipment, they were not. Moreover, they were not at the beginning of the 20th century! But is it really so?
Everyone has long known the American Predator combat drones or Global Hawk UAVs. They have been successfully used for a long time since the 1990s!
Did you know that back in the 1st World War there were full-fledged combat drones, that UAVs, that TT tanks, that is, a Remotely Controlled Tank? There were even UAVs submarines, as well as TT Mini-tanks, and mini-drones of every stripe, for different tasks, for example, kamikaze mini-drones !!!
If you did not know this yet, then attention to the screen:
Promotional video:
Various UAVs, combat drones, radio-controlled mini-drones and other cool military equipment produced by France, Germany, England, the Russian Empire and even Japan!
Electric wheeled tank Fortin Aubriot Gabet 1915, France:
Trench Crossering LandShip - Trench Airborne Cruiser 1915, that is, a Trench Landing Tank, such as an armored personnel carrier or infantry fighting vehicle:
Frame tank Pioneer, manuf. United States 1918:
Experimental Radio - Controlled Obstacle Clearing Machine, 1915, France:
FL Sprengbootes transl. "Explosive Boat", Prototype Radio-Controlled Submarine (Submarine, Drone kamikaze) 1916, Germany:
Siemens - Scuchert Gleiter Front, Germany, 1915, Radio-controlled Torpedo Glider or Drone Flying Bomb:
English UAV:
American Military UAV:
English Radio Controlled Mini Drone Clearing Tank, 1917:
RUSSIAN EMPIRE - Light Tank All-Terrain Vehicle, 1914:
ATV II 1914:
We had heavier giants in the Russian Empire, straight Steampunk Heavy Tank Lebedenko, 1914-1915:
Japanese Radio-Controlled Unmanned Tanks, but already in the 1920-1930s, which means they were developed even earlier in 1910-1920xx:
And then there are whole national tests, a bunch of devices, antennas, and so on:
The tank is close, since it travels without wires, it means that the batteries were of normal capacity:
Soviet Union, Tele-Tanks, i.e. Tele-guided tanks, TT-26 mini drone tank, 1930s:
And this apparently still pre-revolutionary, TT-18:
Such military equipment was already at the beginning of the 20th century. This means even before the Revolution, in the difficult times of the 1st World War!
Author: Evgeny Makarov