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Drone!
Part Three
Season 1, Ep. 3
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Being expendable, Model 147 drones help extend U.S. air power over even the most dangerous corners of North Vietnam.
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1. Part One
14:40Model 147 Lightning Bugs start out as targets for military training exercises in the 1950s. But the shoot-downs of manned U-2 spy planes over the Soviet Union and Cuba compel the Pentagon to modify the targets into front-line warplanes. It's easier said than done.2. Part Two
14:40Bob 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.