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INDEX
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A-10 Warthog
A160 Hummingbird helicopter
AC-130H Spectre gunship
AC-130U Spooky gunship
Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations (ACTD)
Aero Club of Israel
Aeronautic Systems Center
Aeronca Chief
Aerospace America
Aerospace Daily
Aerotrain
“Afghan Eyes” (Clarke memo). See also Summer Project
Afghanistan
9/11 attacks and
Atef hunt and
Bush, George W., and
first Predator lethal strike in
Mullah Omar hunt and
Soviet war in
Summer Project and
U.S. war in
African embassy terrorist bombings (Kenya and Tanzania)
Agnew, Harold
Air Armament Summit 2000
Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)
Air Combat Command (ACC)
Air Combat Command Expeditionary Air Intelligence Squadron
Air Force. See also specific agencies and units
9/11 and
Afghanistan and
Albatross and
Big Bird and
Big Safari and
Blues and
Bosnia and
drones and
Forty-Four balls and
Gulf War and
MTS ball and
New Start Notification and
Predator and
Predator strikes and
Smithsonian exhibit and
Summer Project and
terrorist threats and
Air Force Association
Air Force intelligence
Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center
Air Force Office of Special Investigations
Air Force Operations Center
Air Force Special Operations Command
Air Force Special Tactics
Air National Guard
Air/Space America 88
Air Tasking Order
Albania
Albatross
Albright, Madeleine
Alec B. (CTC deputy director)
Al Jaber Air Base (Kuwait)
Al Jazeera
Allen, Charles E.
Allied Force, Operation
Allott, Gordon
Allouni, Tayseer
Al Qaeda. See also Laden, Osama bin; and other leaders
9/11 and
Afghanistan war and
Cole and
Amber
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AN/AAS-44 V. See Forty-Four Ball
Anaconda, Operation
Anderegg, Dick
Andrews Air Force Base
Andy (sensor operator)
Anvil, Project
Aphrodite, Project
Aquila
Arab League
Armenia
Army
Amber and
Aquila and
Hellfire and
Predator and
Army Air Forces
Army Intelligence Center
Army Rangers
Associated Press
Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems
Atef, Mohammed (aka Abu Hafs al-Masri)
&
nbsp; Atlantic fiber-optic cable
Augustine, Norman
Authorization for Use of Military Force against Terrorists Act (2001)
autopilot
Aviation Week
avionics
Awlaki, Anwar al-
B-1B bomber
B-2 bomber
B-17 bomber
B-52 bomber
Bagram airfield
Bahrain
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
Bay of Pigs invasion
BBC News
Beech Aircraft
Begert, William J.
Beirut bombing
Berger, Sandy
Berlin Wall
Big Bird
Big (pilot)
Big Safari. See 645th Aeronautical Systems Group
Black, Cofer
Blue, Anne Prause
Blue, James E.
Blue, Karsten
Blue, Linden
Blue, Neal
Blue, Virginia Neal
Blue Bird (plane)
Boeing
Bosnia
Boston Globe
Box, Jon
Boyle, Bev
Boyle, Edward J.
BQ-7 bomber
British Royal Air Force
British Royal Flying Corps
Brokaw, Tom
Brown, Gabe
Browne, G. Morgan, Jr.
Brunswick Company
buddy-lase capability
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Bush at War (Woodward)
Buzzer (crew member)
C-5 Galaxy
C-17 Globemaster
C-97 Stratofreighter
C-130 transport
Cambodia
Campbell, John “Soup”
Carter, Jimmy
Casey, William M.
Cassidy, Thomas J., Jr.
Castro, Fidel
C-band. See line-of-sight C-band link
Central Command (Centcom)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). See also Langley CIA headquarters
9/11 and
Air Force and
Al Qaeda and
Amber and
assassinations and
Big Safari and
bin Laden and
Bosnia and
Centcom and
Cole and
Cuba and
drone strikes and
Gnat 750 and
Hellfire Predator and
Hellfire trigger authority and
Hersh on
Nicaragua and
Omar and
Smithsonian exhibit and
Summer Project (Afghan Eyes) and
CH-3C helicopter
Cheney, Dick
Chevron
China
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station
Chinese Belgrade embassy bombing
Christie, Thomas
Citadel, The (and George W. Bush speech)
Clark, Brad
Clark, James G. “Snake”
Clark, Wesley
Clarke, Richard
Clarke, Victoria
Clinton, Bill
CNN
Cobra Eye
Cold War
end of
Cole, USS
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
collateral damage
Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC)
Vicenza, Italy
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Commando Sabre, Operation
Committee to Protect Journalists
Compass Call
composite materials (composite structures, composites)
Compression Labs Inc.
Connor, David
Cook, Donald
Cooper, Ann
Cooter, Mark A.
Cordillera Corp.
Counterterrorism Security Group (CSG)
Counterterrorist Center (CTC, CIA)
Cramer, Michael W.
Creech Air Force Base (formerly Indian Springs)
Cressey, Roger
Croatia
“Crockett” F-15E flight
Crow, Edith
Cruise, Tom
cruise missiles
Crumpton, Hank
Cuba
Curtiss, Glenn
DarkStar
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Dayton Peace Accords
deep stall
defense acquisition system
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Defense Contract Audit Agency
Defense Department (DOD). See also Pentagon; and specific agencies and branches
9/11 and
Al Qaeda and
CIA and
fiber-optic network
procurement and
UAV study
defense industry
Defense Intelligence Agency
defense spending
Dehnert, Robert E., Jr.
Deliberate Force, Operation
Democratic Party
Denny, Reginald
Denver Post
Deptula, David
Deputies Committee (NSC)
Desert Storm, Operation
dethermalizer
Deutch, John M.
Developmental Sciences Inc.
Dewey (crew member)
“Digital Signal Processing” (Raduenz)
Dominick, Peter
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Dotan, Ezra “Beban”
Doucet, Lyse
Douglas, Donald
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Dragon Eye
drones (unmanned, remote-control aircraft, RPVs; unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs). See also Hellfire Predator; Predator; WILD Predator; and other specific models
Blue expands into
early, and problems
early pilotless planes and
early reconnaissance
flight endurance of
Karem designs new
nano-drones
revolution in
Smithsonian exhibit
target
Dr. Strangelove (film)
drug war
Dusseault, Christopher
East Germany
Edwards Air Force Base
Eglin Air Force Base
Egypt
Ehrhard, Thomas P.
Eielson Air Force Base
11th Reconnaissance Squadron (Black Owls)
El Mirage airfield
Empire State Building
End of History, The (Fukuyama)
“Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Program” (Deutch-Rutherford memo)
Enduring Freedom, Operation
European Command
European Union
Executive Orders
Exposition Internationale, L’
F-4D Phantom
F-5 Tiger
F6F Hellcat
F-14 Tomcat
F-15 Eagle
F-15E Strike Eagle
F-16
F-16C Fighting Falcons
F-18
F-22 Raptor
F-100F Super Sabre
F-117 stealth fighter
F/A-18 fighter-bombers
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
15th Reconnaissance Squadron
53rd Test and Evaluation Group
56th Rescue Squadron
Firebees
Fireflys
1st Armored Division
555th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Flynn, Cathal
Fogleman, Ronald
Ford, Gerald
Fort Belvoir
Fort Huachuca
Fort Irwin
Forty-Four ball (AN/AAS-44 V)
forward air controller (FAC)
Foscue, Greg
Fossum, Robert
Franks, Tommy
free-flight World Championships
Front Burner (Lippold)
Frontier Systems
Fry, Scott
Fukuyama, Francis
Fulcher, Tim
Garmabak Ghar camp
Gates Learjet
GBU-12s
General Atomics (formerly GA Technologies)
11th RS and
Blues buy
Forty-Four ball and
Gnat 750 and
Karem quits
Leading Systems buyout and
Predator forerunner and
Predator name reused by
General Dynamics
Germany
Gersten, Peter
Ghengis (pilot)
Gibaldi, Rich
Gibbons, James A.
Gila River Memorial Field
Gjader air base
gliders
Global Hawk (RQ-4)
Global Response Center (CIA)
Glovka, Leo
Gnat
Gnat 750
Google Earth
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gordon, John A.
Gordy, Greg
GPS
Gration, Scott
Griffith, Ronald
Grimes, William D. W.
Gross, Cliff
ground control station (GCS)
Afghanistan and
Balkans and
bore sighting and
complex controls of
Creech Air Force Base
Fort Huachuca
Forty-Four ball and
Langley (Trailer Park)
MTS ball and
Nellis Air Force Base
Predator and, in 1994
Ramstein, and Summer Project
U.S. location for
Groundhog Day (film)
Guatemala
Guay, Jeff A. “Gunny”
Guay, Scott
Gulf Oil
Gulf War of 1991
Hadley, Stephen
Harethi, Qaed Salim Sinan al-
Hawes, Chona
Hawes, Curt
Hawley, Richard
helicopter drones
helicopters
Hellfire missile (AGM-114). See also Hellfire Predator
modified for Predator
pitch bias
Predator tests with
Reapers and
Hellfire Predator (MQ-1; armed Predator). See also Predator; and specific agencies, combat operations, and crew members
9/11 and
Afghanistan war and
Atef and
bin Laden and
Bush, George W., and
camera and sensor in
challenge coin and
CIA vs. CAOC and
deployed post-9/11
deployment preparations and
“ears” added to
endurance of
FAC and
first woman to strike from
ground troops and
Hellfire modified for
Hersh on
Kabul strike and
Kandahar first lethal strike and
killing made personal by
laser illuminator and
legal issues and
MTS ball
NSC and
Omar and
remote split operations and U.S. GCS
“Taco Bell” tests and
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