"The article presents information on the development of unmanned precision weapons. Since the 1991 Gulf War, the Tomahawk land-attack missile has been embraced as the epitome of accuracy, low risk, long range and high yield. Few of its proponents realize, however, that it's combat role germinated early in the 20th century and its ancestor, the first U.S. cruise missile, engaged in combat against Japan during World War II. In the 1930s, Great Britain's Royal Navy feared that a new and deadly breed of high-performance aircraft could challenge shipboard antiaircraft weapons. The threat led to the development of a remote-controlled aircraft using obsolete de Haviland biplanes."