"The Airship Destroyer (originally titled Der Luftkrieg Der Zukunft, also titled "The Aerial Torpedo", "The Battle of the Clouds" in the United Kingdom and "The Battle in the Clouds" in the United States) is a 1909 British silent science fiction trick film directed by Walter R. Booth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Airship_Destroyer

"An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000790/plotsummary

https://archive.org/details/WalterR.BoothsTheAirshipDestroyer1909

NB: this is the first British science-fiction film.