What is "pilotless"

Usage examples of "pilotless".

Skells that have jump jets, pilotless aircraft, heat-seeking rockets, nerve gas, and satellite links!

Hardy saw that it was pilotless command-controlledsomeone was working it from below.

He said German Intelligence had learned that pilotless rocket aircraft were being tested along the inlet from the Solent and it was his job to discover how far ahead the British scientists were with their experiments.

We were at this time better informed about rocket missiles than about pilotless aircraft.

Sandys reported that, in addition to their plans for a rocket attack on London, there was also evidence that the Germans intended to use pilotless aircraft and very long-range guns.

Among the scientists and technical officers opinions varied deeply and sharply on the question whether the new form of attack on the island would be by rocket bombs or by pilotless aircraft.

As he had maintained from the very beginning, he insisted that they would get far better results at much smaller cost by using pilotless aircraft.

Germans were planning to attack us, not only with rockets, but also with pilotless aircraft.

If these pilotless aircraft should be capable of flying at such heights and speeds as to render their interception impossible by air-defence methods, they should for all practical purposes be regarded as projectiles.

German Air Force has also been developing a pilotless aircraft for long-range bombardment in competition with the rocket, and it is very possible that the aircraft will arrive first.

Blind, pilotless machines patrolled the air above, while their radar devices swept the horizons continuously for possible enemies.

When test flights began, the strange and unorthodox shapes of those pilotless, radio-controlled craft sweeping across the Cornish countryside led to a flood of flying saucer reports.

Long ago Tarrant had begun to argue that some new weaponrockets perhaps or pilotless planes of vast speedwould inevitably constitute the task force of the future.

The ship, running sub-space and pilotless, plowed headlong into the next gravitic twister and broke up.

Great engines that sail pilotless, not through the water but the air, halfway around the world to destroy some enemy city.