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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)