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Title Predator : the secret origins of the drone revolution / Richard Whittle.
Author Whittle, Richard, author.
Publisher New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Description 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 25 cm
Edition First Edition.
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Note Portions of Chapters 1,3, and 4 were previously published in different form in "The drone started here" in Air & Space Smithsonian (May 2013). Portions of Chapters 5-10 were previously published in different form in "Predator's big safari", Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies, Mitchell Paper 7 (August 2011).
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-336) and index.
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.
Subject Karem, Abraham, 1937-
Drone aircraft -- United States -- History.
Drone aircraft -- United States -- Design and construction.
Aerospace industries -- California, Southern -- History.
Other title Secret origins of the drone revolution.
ISBN 9780805099645
0805099646
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