Editing Remote control (section)

===Military===
[[File:Brennan torpedo launching.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Brennan torpedo]], one of the earliest "guided missiles"]]
Remotely operated torpedoes were demonstrated in the late 19th century in the form of several types of remotely controlled [[torpedo]]es. The early 1870s saw remotely controlled [[torpedo]]es by [[John Ericsson]] ([[Pneumatics|pneumatic]]), [[John Louis Lay]] (electric wire guided), and Victor von Scheliha (electric wire guided).<ref name="EdwynGray">Edwyn Gray, Nineteenth-century torpedoes and their inventors, page 18</ref>

The [[Brennan torpedo]], invented by [[Louis Brennan]] in 1877 was powered by two contra-rotating propellers that were spun by rapidly pulling out wires from drums wound inside the [[torpedo]]. Differential speed on the wires connected to the shore station allowed the torpedo to be guided to its target, making it "the world's first ''practical'' guided missile".<ref name=gray>{{cite book | last = Gray | first = Edwyn | title = Nineteenth-Century Torpedoes and Their Inventors | publisher = Naval Institute Press | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-1-59114-341-3}}</ref> In 1898 [[Nikola Tesla]] publicly demonstrated a "wireless" radio-controlled [[torpedo]] that he hoped to sell to the [[U.S. Navy]].<ref>{{cite patent|country=US|number=613809|pubdate=1898-11-08|title=Method of and apparatus for controlling mechanism of moving vessels or vehicles|inventor1-last=Tesla|inventor1-first=Nikola}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=PBS.org |url=https://www.pbs.org/tesla |title=Tesla – Master of Lightning |access-date=2008-09-24}}</ref>

[[Archibald Low]] was known as the "father of radio guidance systems" for his pioneering work on guided rockets and planes during the [[First World War]]. In 1917, he demonstrated a remote-controlled aircraft to the [[Royal Flying Corps]] and in the same year built the first wire-guided rocket. As head of the secret [[Royal Flying Corps|RFC]] experimental works at [[Feltham]], A. M. Low was the first person to use radio control successfully on an aircraft, an [[British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I#1917 Aerial Target|"Aerial Target"]]. It was "piloted" from the ground by future world aerial speed record holder [[Henry Segrave]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-brief-history-of-drones|title = A Brief History of Drones}}</ref> Low's systems encoded the command transmissions as a countermeasure to prevent enemy intervention.<ref>"The Dawn of the Drone" Steve Mills 2019 Casemate Publishers. Page 189 "In order further to safeguard against outside interference I may have a number of inertia wheels of variable speed, only one being correctly adjusted to pick up the timed signals and actuate the mechanism."</ref> By 1918 the secret [[British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I#The Royal Navy's D.C.B. Section|D.C.B. Section of the Royal Navy's Signals School, Portsmouth]] under the command of [[Eric Gascoigne Robinson|Eric Robinson V.C.]] used a variant of the Aerial Target's radio control system to control from ‘mother’ aircraft different types of naval vessels including a submarine.<ref name=adm253>UK National Archives ADM 1/8539/253 Capabilities of distantly controlled boats. Reports of trials at Dover 28–31 May 1918</ref>

The military also developed several early remote control vehicles. In [[World War I]], the [[Imperial German Navy]] employed [[FL-boat]]s (Fernlenkboote) against coastal shipping. These were driven by [[internal combustion]] engines and controlled remotely from a shore station through several miles of wire wound on a spool on the boat. An aircraft was used to signal directions to the shore station. EMBs carried a high explosive charge in the bow and traveled at speeds of thirty knots.<ref>Lightoller, Charles Herbert (1935). ''Titanic and Other Ships''. I. Nicholson and Watson.</ref> The Soviet [[Red Army]] used remotely controlled [[teletank]]s during the 1930s in the [[Winter War]] against [[Finland]] and the early stages of [[World War II]]. A teletank is controlled by radio from a control tank at a distance of 500 to 1,500 meters, the two constituting a ''telemechanical group''. The Red Army fielded at least two teletank battalions at the beginning of the [[Great Patriotic War]]. There were also remotely controlled cutters and experimental remotely controlled planes in the Red Army.

Remote controls in military usage employ [[Radar jamming and deception|jamming]] and countermeasures against jamming. Jammers are used to disable or sabotage the enemy's use of remote controls. The distances for military remote controls also tend to be much longer, up to intercontinental distance satellite-linked remote controls used by the U.S. for their [[unmanned airplanes]] (drones) in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. Remote controls are used by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan to attack coalition and government troops with roadside [[improvised explosive device]]s, and terrorists in Iraq are reported in the media to use modified TV remote controls to detonate bombs.<ref>Enders, David (October 2008). "Mahdi Army Bides its Time". ''[[The Progressive]]''.</ref>