Predator : the secret origins of the drone revolution

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Predator : the secret origins of the drone revolution

Title remainder

the secret origins of the drone revolution

Statement of responsibility

Richard Whittle

Title variation

Secret origins of the drone revolution

Creator

• trueWhittle, Richard

Subject

• Aerospace industries -- California, Southern -- History
• trueAerospace industry and trade
• trueDrone aircraft
• Drone aircraft -- United States -- Design and construction
• Drone aircraft -- United States -- History
• Karem, Abraham, 1937-
• trueMilitary aircraft
• Military art and science -- Technological innovations
• trueRemotely piloted vehicles
• trueUninhabited combat aerial vehicles

Language

eng

Summary

The creation of the first weapon in history that can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe was far more than clever engineering. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was the most profound development in military and aerospace technology since the intercontinental ballistic missile. Once considered fragile toys, drones were long thought to be of limited utility. The Predator itself was resisted at nearly every turn by the military establishment, but a few iconoclasts refused to see this new technology smothered at birth. The remarkable cast of characters responsible for developing the Predator includes a former Israeli inventor who turned his Los Angeles garage into a drone laboratory, two billionaire brothers marketing a futuristic weapon that would combat Communism, a pair of fighter pilots willing to buck their white-scarf fraternity, a cunning Pentagon operator nicknamed "Snake," and a secretive Air Force organization known as Big Safari. When an Air Force team unleashed the first lethal drone strikes in 2001 for the CIA, the military's view of drones changed nearly overnight. Based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews, Predator is a dramatic account of the creation of a revolutionary weapon that forever changed the way we wage war

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Writing style

• trueEngaging

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

623.74/69

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography