Predator

by Richard Whittle

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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)

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  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