I served in Desert Storm. We were an Engineer Company made up of heavy equipment, called a CSE unit. One of our missions in 1991 was to build a drone airport in Saudi. It had to be smoother than a pool table, the drones carried cameras under the belly. They were very close to the ground therefore the smooth strip. That was one of the first times we used drones in war, but they were not fitted with weapons back then, or none that we saw. Things have come a long way in 20 years.
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