![]() ![]() ![]() Getting there is the subject of Whittle’s narrative, which soon lands on a second big problem-that unmanned aircraft are inherently less safe than piloted ones. Fast-forward four decades, and the drone has become commonplace, increasingly used by American forces after 9/11. The emergent need for a decoy aircraft that would look just like a full-scale jet to radar surveillance prompted inventor Abraham Karem to come up with an even better solution. ![]() The impulse to create the unmanned drone came from an Israeli lab in response to a quite specific problem: namely, Soviet rockets with multistage radars aimed at Israeli jets by Syrian and Egyptian fighters. Put a laser, a cannon and some Hellfire missiles into an unmanned aircraft, and you have a potent killing machine. They may soon be delivering this book to you, but for now, writes Woodrow Wilson Center global fellow Whittle in this follow-up to his excellent The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey (2010), drones are anything but your friends. ![]()
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