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"A psychologically gripping descent into the eerie realm of drone warfare, led by one pilot's risky quest to expose its darkest secrets. As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout-drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, and haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted," especially by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life. He reluctantly teams up...

Explains what a drone is and how these vehicles are operated and offers facts about the size, speed, and uses of a wide range of military and civilian drones.

Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. Through satellite imaging and remote technology, countries such as the United States can destroy small targets halfway around the world with pinpoint accuracy. Now civilian industries are acquiring drones for everything from monitoring crops to delivering packages. Kreps explains how they and the systems associated with them work, how...

Drones are a Modern Engineering Marvel! In this engaging title, readers will explore the history of drones from hot air balloons to radio-controlled aircraft to today's unmanned aerial vehicles. Reginald Denny and his development of radio-controlled planes for the US military is featured, and a colorful infographic shows the parts of a drone. Readers will learn how different types of drones work and see the future of drones from weather monitoring...

Introduces readers to different types of drones and describes their features.

Lucas is too busy with his new drone to play Wiffle ball with his friends, but when their only ball is captured by a mean dog, they retrieve it using teamwork and the drone.

Jina Modell works in Communications for a paramilitary organization, and she really likes it. She likes the money, she likes the coolness factorand it was very cool, even for Washington, DC. She liked being able to kick terrorist butts without ever leaving the climate-controlled comfort of the control room. But when Jina displays a really high aptitude for spatial awareness and action, shes reassigned to work as an on-site drone operator in the field...

"Militaries use robots and drones in the air, on the ground, and underwater all around the world. Drones spy on targets and robots disable bombs to get the job done!"-- "Militaries use robots and drones in the air, on the ground, and underwater all around the world. Drones spy on targets and robots disable bombs to get the job done!"--Provided by amazon.

Assassination by drone is a subject of deep and enduring fascination. Yet few understand how and why this has become our principal way of waging war. Kill Chain uncovers the real and extraordinary story; its origins in long-buried secret programs, the breakthroughs that made drone operations possible, the ways in which the technology works and, despite official claims, does not work. Taking the reader inside the well-guarded world of national security,...

After tracking a mysterious UAV to a group of Muslim extremists in Borneo, the Whiplash team race against time to recover their stolen technology and discover who is bankrolling the group before they start World War III.