Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Robot Tanks Of World War II

"Drones" may be the newest military, law enforcement and even civilian craze, but they have been around for a while.  Paleofuture noted that science fiction writer Hugo Gernsback predicted manned flame tanks in the mid-1930s, but revised his prediction by the mid-1940s to make the tanks unmanned robots controlled by radio waves.  The Germans actually deployed small radio controlled tanks to act as land torpedoes. 

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