The U.S. Air Force’s Pilotless Fighter

The Bomarc was a surface-to-air missile masquerading as an airplane. When is a missile not a missile? When it is a “ground-to-air pilotless aircraft.” That, for a while, was the official description of the Bomarc, the United States’ first surface-to-air missile (SAM) and the only one ever deployed by the U.S. Air Force. The rationale …

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