![]() ![]() 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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