Predator by Richard Whittle5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. Once considered fragile toys, drones were long thought to be of limited utility. As Richard Whittle shows in Predator, it was the most profound development in military and aerospace technology since the intercontinental ballistic missile. "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. 353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm ![]()
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