A BRIEF HISTORY OF UAVs IN THE 1970s

Abstract

The technological development of the UAV domain has produced a conceptual revolution in the design, architecture and operation of these technical systems. The evolution of unmanned aerial systems has followed the same technological curve as manned aircraft and the continuous technological development of the UAV field has produced a conceptual revolution in the design, architecture and operation of these technical systems. After the 1970s, on the one hand, a series of modernizations of the launch-recovery systems of the air vectors took place and on the other hand, the development of miniaturized classes of UAVs. The article summarizes information about the most relevant historical landmarks regarding the experimental and operational technological achievements of the 1970s and 1980s.