Comment by somat
8 days ago
That is not true. By my calculation the first human killed by drones was probably September 24, 1958 when planes were shot down by fully autonomous rocket powered kamikaze drones released over the taiwan strait.
My point being A. we have been killing people with fully autonomous drones for a long time now. and B. why the name change? just because it uses a propeller or is in vertical helicopter form does it is not a guided missile?
You need to show at least some reference to that, or a name I can look up..
It is easy enough to search for what happened over the Taiwan strait in September 1958. But here is the best report I have found on the incident.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2051...
TLDR: page 46: the sidewinder missile(a fully autonomous rocket powered kamikaze drone to use modern sensationalist language) was used for the first time in combat.