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The Brunswick-Balke-Collender OQ-4 was a prototype drone built in the
United States
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by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender corporation.
The OQ-4 was one of a very few aviation-related ventures undertaken by Brunswick-Balke-Collender, which was basically a non-aviation company. It was similar in some respects to the
Radioplane OQ-2
The OQ-2 Radioplane was the first mass-produced UAV or drone in the United States, manufactured by the Radioplane Company. A follow-on version, the OQ-3, became the most widely used target drone in US service, with over 9,400 being built during ...
, including a 12-foot wingspan. Although a few prototypes were built, the OQ-4 was not put into production, perhaps because Radioplane and Frankfort could produce enough target drone so that another production line was not necessary.
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1940s United States special-purpose aircraft
Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United States