Predator
Subtitle: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry; Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780805099645
Subjects: Fighter planes; Airplanes, design and construction
Description: "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."--