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Sitting Ducks & Peeping Toms Targets, Drones and UAVs in British Military Service Since 1917
Product Code04076AVI
CategoryMilitary Bi-Plane Era 1903-35
Our Price£52.50
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AUTHORMichael I Draper
BINDINGHardback
NO OF PAGES372
ILLUSTRATIONS300 Black and white photos
This book charts the British development of unmanned aircraft from 1917, when Professor Arthur Low developed an unmanned aerial torpedo, to their use in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Almost 3,000 detailed individual aircraft histories are given. These cover the Fairey Queen, Queen Bee, Queen Martinet, ML U-120D, Auster B3, Firefly, Meteor, Canberra, Jindivik, Sea Vixen, Shelduck, Chukar, Mirach, MATS-B, Skeet and Banshee. Also revealed is the story of the GEC Phoenix and its role in the Iraq War in addition to new details of the Westland unmanned rotary vehicles and the extensive JUEP trials of 2001-06; the Royal Navy"s use of the Queen Martinet drone; and the Phoenix UAV in Bosnia and Iraq