USS Wisconsin's drone is cited as accepting the surrender of Iraqi troops during the 1991 Gulf War. Its appearance warned that the battleship's 16-inch guns were close behind, giving the remote aircraft coercive force without firing. The example challenges claims that drone warfare or surrender to a drone is wholly new. It also pairs a remotely operated system with a battleship laid down roughly half a century earlier.
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USS Wisconsin's drone and a Gulf War surrender
Iraqi troops surrendering to USS Wisconsin's drone in 1991 provides an earlier example of remote systems exerting battlefield pressure.