Among the technological loot seized from the Nazis after WWII was the drone. While other countries including the U.S. had tinkered with the idea of unmanned aircraft previously, they hadn’t gotten as far as the Nazi’s. Air Force Intelligence documents related to Paperclip operations describe, in Cook’s words, Nazi development and late-stage testing of “Vesco’s Fireball drone: a pilotless, remote controlled aircraft that disrupted the energies and electronic systems of Allied bombers”
