History
One of the earliest explorations of the concept of the combat drone was by Dr. Lee De Forest an early inventor of radio devices, and U.A. Sanabria, a TV engineer. They presented their idea in an article in a 1940 publication. In the 1980s, Iran used a simple drone capable of holding six RPG-7 rounds in combat in the Iran-Iraq War. This was the first time a combat drone was used in war. The US has recently (in the past few years) accelerated its use of UCAVs in Pakistan as part of the War on Terrorism.
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