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55%OFFT. Mark Mccurley - Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare - 9781760292263 - 9781760292263
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Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare

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Description for Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare Paperback. For the first time ever, we are given an inside look at the US military's drone program that revolutionized modern warfare. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JWKF; JWKT; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 344.

We are too close. We know too much, and when it is time to shoot, we can zoom in until the target fills the screen.

Drones, or remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the military's counterterrorism arsenal. Hunter Killer puts readers into this secretive world: hunting terrorists from the sky, deploying cutting-edge technology to neutralize threats to national security; but also, sitting in Los Angeles traffic surrounded by civilians on the commute home, the mind still fixed on blown-up images of a target's charred remains in the dust.

From starting out as one ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
St Leonards, Australia
ISBN
9781760292263
SKU
9781760292263
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99-1

About T. Mark Mccurley
Lt. Col. T. Mark McCurley is a retired Air Force pilot and former intelligence operator. In 2003, he volunteered for the secretive Predator program, deploying five times to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations, where he has flown the MQ-1 Predator and the MQ-9 Reaper, accruing more than one thousand combat hours in flight. Kevin Maurer is an award-winning ... Read more

Reviews for Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare
T Mark McCurley literally wrote the handbook on Predator drones for US forces; his memoir Hunter Killer is a detailed but unshadowy look at years spent in drone warfare.
Esquire
An Air Force veteran tells an exciting tale of tracking terrorist leaders by remote piloted aircraft, the future of military aviation... An illuminating tale of a pilot on ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Hunter Killer: Inside the Lethal World of Drone Warfare


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