The U.S. Navy Wanted to Send Drones on Ship-Killing Suicide Missions
An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’
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6 min readSep 12, 2021
The U.S. Navy was a big user of Ryan Aeronautical Q-2C target drones, and Navy carrier battle groups operating in the Gulf of Tonkin borrowed imagery from the U.S. Air Force’s operational Model 147 Lightning Bugs flying from Bien Hoa in South Vietnam.
