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001 2014014070
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008 140425s2014 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780805099645 (hardback)
020 $z9780805099652 (ebook)
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050 00 $aUG1242.D7$bW57 2014
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100 1 $aWhittle, Richard.
245 10 $aPredator :$bthe secret origins of the drone revolution /$cRichard Whittle.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt and Company,$c2014.
300 $a353 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The creation of the first weapon in history that can stalk and kill an enemy on the other side of the globe was far more than clever engineering. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was the most profound development in military and aerospace technology since the intercontinental ballistic missile. Once considered fragile toys, drones were long thought to be of limited utility. The Predator itself was resisted at nearly every turn by the military establishment, but a few iconoclasts refused to see this new technology smothered at birth. The remarkable cast of characters responsible for developing the Predator includes a former Israeli inventor who turned his Los Angeles garage into a drone laboratory, two billionaire brothers marketing a futuristic weapon that would combat Communism, a pair of fighter pilots willing to buck their white-scarf fraternity, a cunning Pentagon operator nicknamed "Snake," and a secretive Air Force organization known as Big Safari. When an Air Force team unleashed the first lethal drone strikes in 2001 for the CIA, the military's view of drones changed nearly overnight. Based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews, Predator is a groundbreaking, dramatic account of the creation of a revolutionary weapon that forever changed the way we wage war"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 334-336) and index.
650 0 $aDrone aircraft$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aDrone aircraft$zUnited States$xDesign and construction.
600 10 $aKarem, Abraham,$d1937-
650 0 $aAerospace industries$zCalifornia, Southern$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Military / Weapons.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Military / Aviation.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/645/9780805099645/image/lgcover.9780805099645.jpg