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When Drones Were Simply Targets
The American Buzz Bomb is an intriguing but little-recalled chapter in post-WW2 history. It was a close cousin of the German V1 used against London in WW2, and the forerunner of today’s diverse and far more complex drones. Pictured above: McDonnell KDD-1 Katydid drone on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_TD2D_Katydid In the late 1940’s, the U.S. “Katydid” was a radio-controlled, gyro-stabilized aerial target powered by a pulse-jet engine copied from German buzz...
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