The first images of the Shahed 149 drone

The advantages of strategic UAVs notwithstanding, the emergent technologies described above were first exploited in war by Israeli battlefield UAVs. The first of these was the Tadiran Mastiff, a twin-boom aircraft introduced in 1975 that resembled a large model airplane weighing just over 90 kg (200 pounds) with a boxy fuselage and a pusher propeller driven by a small piston engine.