The Strange History Of The Word ‘Drone’
Credit: Imperial War Museum
The one thing that almost everyone in the world of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can agree on is that they hate the word “drone,” which in their view has become clickbait-speak for a sinister agent of robotic death and destruction. But alternatives range from cumbersome to misleading. “Drone”...
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