In the mid-1930s, sci-fi legend Hugo Gernsback predicted that manned flame tanks would one day become a reality. A decade later, Gernsback would revisit his prediction with one important twist—the flame tanks of tomorrow would drive themselves.
Controlled by wireless signals, the “radio robot flametank” of the future was featured on the cover of the September 1945 issue of Radio-Craft magazine. World War II had effectively come to a close the previous month, but this being the age of deadtree media, the September issue was likely on newsstands before the Japanese even surrendered.
via Gizmodo
