![]() 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. ![]() Object Details Author Whittle, Richard Subject Karem, Abraham 1937- Contents The genius of the genesis - The blues - A straw hat in winter - Predator reborn - Predator's progress - WILD predator - The summer project - The next logical step - Hellfire and hesitation - Ready or not - Wildfire - Cleared to fire - Never mind- we'll do it ourselves 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.
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