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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/RexSueciae on 2023-09-18 23:03:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1956, the US Air Force lost control of an unmanned drone and tried to shoot it down. Jet fighters fired 208 rockets at the drone. They all missed; the rockets started fires on the ground, and the drone crashed by itself when it ran out of fuel.