Part Two

Released Sunday, 15th August 2021

Good episode? Give it some love!

Part Two

Sunday, 15th August 2021

Good episode? Give it some love!

Rate Episode

List

Bob Schwanhausser and his crew battle the weather, unreliable hardware, a labyrinthine bureaucracy -- oh, and communist troops -- as they struggle to make new drone technology work in some of the most brutal conditions on Earth.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/drone.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rate

List

Get this podcast via API

From The Podcast

Drones played an important and unheralded role in the U.S. air war over Vietnam and surrounding countries in the 1960s and ‘70s. Model 147 Lightning Bugs, based on the Q-2 target drone, spotted targets for manned bombers, jammed enemy radars and scattered propaganda leaflets. In 11 years of combat starting in 1964, USAF planes in Southeast Asia launched more than a thousand Lightning Bugs on more than 3,000 sorties.The Vietnam drone war was waged by a misfit crew of contractors and airmen led by some of the era’s most ingenious engineers and managers. And for much of the conflict, they answered to one person. Bob Schwanhausser. The secretive chief of a secret war … with their own secrets to keep. Drone! is an audio adaptation of Drone War: Vietnam, a nonfiction book about the world’s first robot war. By David Axe, a filmmaker and reporter for Forbes.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/drone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Podchaser to...

Rate podcasts and episodes
Follow podcasts and creators
Create podcast and episode lists
& much more

Do you host or manage this podcast?
Claim and edit this page to your liking.

Podchaser is the ultimate destination for podcast data, search, and discovery. Learn More