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Predator

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by Richard Whittle


  Trailer Park Wildfire team and

  Uzbekistan and

  Hersh, Seymour

  Hertenstein, Jack

  Hettick, Jeff

  high-aspect-ratio wing

  Hill, Scott

  Ho Chi Minh Trail

  Homeland Security Department

  Honey, Richard

  Hot Pepper

  House Mouse (mock missile)

  Houston Post

  Hudson Institute

  Hughes, Patrick M.

  Hughes Aircraft

  Humphrey, Hubert H.

  Hungary

  Hunter

  Hussein, Saddam

  IBM

  imagery analysts

  Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field

  renamed Creech Air Force Base

  Inside the Air Force

  Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)

  Iran

  Iran-Contra Affair

  Iraq

  Gulf War and

  war of 2003

  Israel

  Yom Kippur War

  Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)

  Israel Defense Forces

  Israel Defense Prize

  Israeli Air Force

  “Jane” (CIA alias)

  Jane’s Robot Aircraft Today

  Jayjock, Steve

  Jergensen, Darran

  Johns, Kenneth

  Joint Analysis Center (JAC) Molesworth

  Joint Chiefs of Staff

  Joint Special Operations Command

  Jordan

  JPO. See Unmanned Air Vehicle Joint Program Office

  Jumper, Jimmy

  Jumper, John P.

  Just, Tim

  Kabul mission

  Kandahar missions

  Karem, Abraham

  aeronautic pioneers and

  Air/Space America 88 and

  Albatross and

  Amber and

  armed drone and

  avionics and

  Big Bird and

  Blues meet

  DARPA and

  Developmental Sciences and

  early drone designs and

  early life in Israel

  El Mirage and

  employees hired by

  flight studies by

  Frontier Systems and

  General Atomics and

  Gnat and

  Gnat 750 and

  Hughes and

  JPO and

  Karem Aircraft and

  Leading Systems bankruptcy and General Atomics takeover

  marries Dina

  Matos and

  moves to U.S.

  MX survival challenge and

  Navy proposals and

  personality of

  Predator design and

  satellites and

  Smithsonian exhibit and

  Karem, Dina Schleiffer

  Karem, Ezra

  Karem, Isaac

  Karimov, Islam

  KC-10 refueling tanker

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr.

  Kennedy, Mike

  Kenya. See African embassy terrorist bombings

  Kettering Bug

  Khabab, Abu

  Khartoum, Sudan, strikes

  Khost, Afghanistan, strikes

  Kiflawi, Flora

  Kiflawi, Moshe

  Kilmurray, Kenneth “2K”

  Kimmons, Jeff

  Kimzey, Edwin

  Known and Unkown (Rumsfeld)

  Kohler, Robert J.

  Kosovo

  Kostelnik, Michael C.

  Ku-band radio frequency

  Ku-band satellite antenna (Ku-band satellite dish)

  Kubitschek, Juscelino

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Kuhn, Ira

  Kuwait

  L-3 Communications

  Laden, Osama bin

  9/11 and

  Afghanistan war and

  Al Jazeera and

  Atef and

  Cole and

  debate on strikes vs.

  Predator hunt for

  Predator video of

  Summer Project and

  Tenet’s Scotch and

  Langley Air Force Base (Hampton Roads)

  Langley CIA headquarters

  Predator GCS at (Trailer Park)

  Summer Project and

  Laos

  laser, defined

  laser designator

  laser-guided weapons

  launch-and-recovery element (LRE)

  Leading Systems

  Lehman, John F., Jr.

  Lewis, Jerry

  Life

  Lightning Bugs

  Lindbergh, Charles

  line-of-sight C-band link. See also split operations

  Lippold, Kirk S.

  Lockheed Martin

  long-range radar

  Lucky (dog)

  Lulu Belle

  Lynn, Larry

  M299 Hellfire launcher

  MacDill Air Force Base

  Machin, Jim

  Manhattan Project

  Marine Corps

  Marks, James A. “Spider”

  Martin, Gregory S. “Speedy”

  Massoud, Ahmad Shah

  Mastiff mini-RPV

  Matos

  Mattoon, Mark “Spoon”

  Maverick missile

  McCarthy, Eugene

  McLaughlin, John

  McLean, Terry

  Meermans, Mike

  Melnick, Mike

  Memorandum of Notification (Bush, 2001)

  Memorandum of Notification (Clinton, 1998)

  Mexico

  MH-47 Chinooks

  Mibli. See Military Intelligence Battalion

  MiG fighters

  Military Intelligence Battalion (Mibli)

  Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles exhibit (2008)

  Miller, Ray

  Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium

  Mirage 2000D fighter planes

  Miramar Naval Air Station

  Mirazi, Hafez Al-

  Misty Fast FAC

  Mladic, Ratko

  Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh

  Monkey Switch

  Monroe, Bob

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Moore, Robert A.

  Moorhead, Glen W., III, “Wally”

  Moseley, T. Michael “Buzz”

  MQ-1C Gray Eagle

  MTS ball (Multi-Spectral Targeting System)

  Mullowney, Penn E. “Pete”

  multiplexer

  Murphy, Ronald

  Murray, Bill

  MX nuclear missiles

  Myers, Richard

  Najibullah, Mullah

  NASCAR teams

  National Exploitation Laboratory (NEL)

  National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)

  National Military Command Center

  National Photographic Interpretation Center

  National Reconnaissance Office

  National Security Agency (NSA)

  National Security Council (NSC)

  Naval Air Systems Command

  Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging Global Positioning System (NAVSTAR, later GPS)

  Navy

  Air Force and

  Amber and

  Forty-Four ball and

  MTS ball and

  Predator and

  Navy Aircraft Weapons Requirements Branch

  Navy Department

  Navy SEALs

  Navy Tactical Readiness Division

  Naylor, Sean

  Nazi Germany

  Nellis Air Force Base

  New America Foundation

  New Skies Satellites NSS-703

  New Start Notification

  New Yorker

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Times

  Nicaragua

  Nightly News (NBC TV show)

  Nine-line Brief

  Norman, Willie

  North Atlantic Treaty Organi
zation (NATO)

  Balkans and

  Naples headquarters

  Northern Alliance

  North Korea

  Northrop, Jack

  Northrop Grumman

  North West Frontier Province

  Not a Good Day to Die (Naylor)

  Novak, Dan

  Obama, Barack

  Obama, Michelle

  O’Grady, Scott

  Omar, Mullah Mohammed

  O’Neill, Paul

  Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA)

  Operational Requirements Document

  operations center (ops cell)

  Langley

  Ramstein

  Operating Location Detachment 4

  Owens, William A.

  Pace, Frank

  Paisley, Melvyn R.

  Pakistan

  Palmdale, California

  Pan American World Airways

  Panetta, Leon

  Paris Air Show

  Pave Penny (A-10 laser tracker)

  Pavitt, James

  PB4Y-1 Liberator

  Peled, Benjamin

  Pentagon

  9/11 attacks and

  Predator video in

  Perry, William

  Pie Face project

  Pioneer

  Piper planes

  Plummer, Stephen

  Poss, James

  Powell, Colin

  Powers, Francis Gary

  Predator. See also Hellfire Predator; WILD Predator

  ACC review of

  Afghan Eyes (Summer Project) and

  Afghanistan war and (see specific missions)

  Air Force and

  Amber and

  arming of (see also Hellfire Predator)

  arming of, legal hurdles

  arming of, proposed

  authority to pull trigger and

  beyond line-of-sight communications

  Big Safari and

  bin Laden sighted by

  Blues, Karem, and early design of

  Bosnia and

  buddy-lase capability

  cloud cover and

  cost of replacing

  crashes

  daylight camera

  debate over strikes vs. Al Qaeda and

  drone revolution and

  drug war and

  early design of, and Karem’s Gnat 750

  early General Atomics prototype

  endurance of

  exploitation support data

  first combat and

  as first Medium Altitude Endurance UAV

  flight crew (see ground control station)

  flown globally, from U.S. base

  Forty-Four ball added to

  imagery system developed

  infrared camera

  Kosovo and

  Ku-band satellite link

  laser designator

  laser illuminator

  line-of-sight C-band link

  MTS ball and

  name chosen

  speed of

  split operations

  Stinger missiles and

  Swanson assigned to

  Taliban shoots at

  test drive of

  video stream and

  WILD project and

  wings icing and

  Predator 3023

  Predator 3034

  Predator 3037

  Predator 3038

  Predator 3040

  Predator B. See also Reaper

  Predator (film)

  Prince Sultan Air Base

  Principals Committee (NSC)

  Pry, Raymond

  Purple Passion

  pusher propeller

  Q-2C target drones

  Q-2 Firebee target drones

  Qatar

  QH-50 DASH drone helicopter

  Quigley, Craig

  Rabel, Ed

  radar antenna

  radio control

  Radioplane Company

  RadioShack

  Radtke, Mark

  Raduenz, Brian

  Raggio, Robert F.

  Ramstein Air Base

  Rapid Exploitation and Dissemination Cell (RED Cell)

  Raytheon

  Razak, Abdul

  RC-135S aircraft

  Reagan, Ronald

  Reaper (MQ-9, Predator B)

  Red Flag exercise

  Redstone Arsenal

  Reeve, William

  Rembrandt codec

  remote-control drones, early

  remote-control war. See also split operations, remote

  remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs). See also drones; and specific aircraft

  defined

  renamed “unmanned aerial vehicles” (UAVs)

  Renuart, Gene

  Republican Party

  Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)

  Review-Journal (Las Vegas)

  RF-4C Phantom II jets

  Rice, Condoleezza

  Richards, Dana

  Ricks, Tom

  “Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The” (Coleridge)

  Rivet Amber

  Rivet Joint

  Roberts, Neil

  Roberts Ridge

  Roche, James

  rocket-propelled grenade (RPG)

  Rotax 912 engine

  ROVER (Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver)

  Roving Sands ’95 exercise

  RQ-170 Sentinel drone

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Russack, John

  Rutherford, Allan

  Ryan, Michael E.

  Ryan Aeronautical

  Sadler, Bill

  Sadler Vampire ultralight

  Salon International de l’Aéronautique

  SAM radar umbrella

  Sanborn, Scott

  San Diego Union

  Sandinistas

  Sandino, Augusto César

  Sarajevo

  satellite communications antennas. See also Ku-band satellite antenna; line-of-sight C-band

  satellites

  Gnat 750 and

  modem uplink and

  Predator video stream and

  Saudi Arabia

  Schroeder, Gerhard

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold

  Schweizer RG-8 motor glider

  Scott, Tony

  Scout mini-RPV

  Scud missiles

  Seahawk helicopters

  search-and-rescue helicopters

  Self, Nate

  sensor operator

  September 11, 2001, attacks (9/11)

  Serbia

  SESAT satellite

  17th Reconnaissance Squadron

  Shadow

  Shaffer, Glen

  Shelton, Hugh

  Shiffrin, Richard

  Shiloh, USS (cruiser)

  Short, Michael

  Sierra Hotel (Anderegg)

  Sikorsky, Igor

  Sikorsky helicopters

  Simpson, O. J.

  645th Aeronautical Systems Group (Big Safari)

  9/11 and

  Afghan Eyes and (see Summer Project)

  Afghanistan war and

  armed Predator and

  control of Predator from U.S. and

  Hellfire Predator deployed vs. Al Qaeda by

  Hellfire soft target tests and

  MTS ball and

  Predator “ears” and

  Predator laser designator and

  Predator taken over by

  recent Predator projects

  6514th Test Squadron

  Skunk Works

  Slokes (pilot)

  Slovenia

  Small Group

  Small Smart Bomb

  Smith, Leighton W., Jr., “Snuffy”

  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

  Snitch (crew member)

  soft targets

  Somalia

  Somoza Debayle, Anastasio “Tachito”

  Somoza García, Anastasio “Tacho”

  Somoza García, Luis

  Southern Comma
nd (SOCOM)

  South Korean airliner

  Soviet Bloc

  Soviet Union

  Afghanistan war of 1980s

  collapse of

  INF Treaty and

  planes shot down by

  Yom Kippur War and

  Spear (pilot)

  Speed Light

  Spirit of St. Louis (plane)

  split operations

  remote

  SR-71 Blackbird spy plane

  State Department

  Status of Forces Agreement

  stealth fighters

  Stewart, Bill

  Stinger antiaircraft missiles

  Stratakes, Jay

  Strategic Air Command

  Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)

  Strategic Plans and Policy Division

  “Strategy for Eliminating the Threat” (Clarke)

  Stufflebeem, John

  Sudan. See also African embassy terrorist bombings

  Sullivan, Kevin

  Sulzberger, Arthur Hays

  Summer Project (Afghan Eyes)

  bin Laden sighting and

  Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (Mons, Belgium)

  surface-to-air missiles (SAMs)

  Suter, Richard “Moody”

  Swanson, Scott

  Swenson, Don

  synthetic aperture radar

  Syria

  “Taco Bell” tests

  Tajikistan

  Takur Ghar peak

  Taliban

  Tanjug news agency

  Tanzania. See African embassy terrorist bombings

  Tarnak Farms

  Taszár air base

  Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

  Teledyne Ryan

  Tenet, George

  Texron

  Thanh Hoa Bridge

  Thatcher, Margaret

  32nd Expeditionary Air Intelligence Squadron

  Thomas, Joseph G.

  348th Bombardment Squadron

  391st Fighter Squadron

  Thunderbirds

  Tier programs

  I (low-altitude UAV)

  II (medium-altitude UAV)

  III (high-altitude UAV)

  tiltrotor designs

  Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

  Title 10, U.S. code

  Tomahawk missiles

  Top Gun (film)

  Townes Commission

  Transportable Medium Earth Terminal (TMET)

  Trimble Navigation

  Trimble Navigation GPS receiver

  Trippe, Charles W.

  Trippe, Juan

  Trojan Spirit II mobile satellite system

  TRW

  Turkey

  Turkmenistan

  Tuzla Air Base

  TV-guided missiles

  12th Air Force

  Twetten, Thomas A.

  U-2 plane

  Udorn Royal Air Force Base, Thailand

  UHF (ultra-high-frequency) satellite antenna

  ultralight planes

  United Nations

  Balkans and

  Iraq and

  Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions

  U.S. Air Forces Europe (USAFE)

  U.S. Congress

  Afghanistan war and

  New Start Notification and

  U.S. House of Representatives

  Appropriations Committee

  Defense Subcommittee

  Intelligence Committee

  U.S. News & World Report

  U.S. Senate

  Armed Services Committee

  unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), term adopted. See also Hellfire Predator; Predator; and other specific aircraft

  “Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan, 2009–2047” (Air Force study)

 

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