Could Britain's Queen Bee drone experience have prepared the Royal Navy better for kamikaze attacks?
Short answerIt offered relevant remote-control experience and even possible strike concepts, but Britain did not develop the resources and doctrine needed to make them operational before kamikazes appeared.
NotesThe Royal Navy already valued armored flight decks and layered air defense before encountering kamikaze attacks. Queen Bee target drones demonstrated remote control, and interwar thinking could imagine an old carrier such as Argus dispatching unmanned attack aircraft controlled from another aircraft. That concept still required reliable control, suitable payloads, production capacity, and a doctrine for operational use. Once war began, more urgent demands displaced the investment needed to turn the experiment into a mature weapon or defensive answer.