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Offline mord

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Even U.S. Drones were invented by an Israeli
« on: April 26, 2012, 09:31:05 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator#Operational_history   


Development
At Paris Air Show 2007
A Predator flies on a simulated Navy aerial reconnaissance flight off the coast of southern California on December 5, 1995.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Pentagon began experimenting with reconnaissance drones in the early 1980s. The CIA preferred small, lightweight, unobtrusive drones, in contrast to the United States Air Force (USAF). In the early 1990s, the CIA became interested in the "Amber", a drone developed by Leading Systems, Inc.[7] The company's owner, Abraham Karem, was the former chief designer for the Israeli Air Force, and had immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1970s. Karem's company had since gone bankrupt and been bought up by a U.S. defense contractor, from whom the CIA secretly bought five drones (now called the "GNAT"). Karem agreed to produce a quiet engine for the 






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Karem Aircraft, Inc. is an American aerospace company with offices in Lake Forest, California and Fort Worth, Texas, founded by Abraham Karem as a rapid development firm specializing in advanced tiltrotor transport aircraft. Karem was the former chief designer for the Israeli Air Force and migrated to the United States in the late 1970s.

Under his previous company, Leading Systems Inc. (LSI), Karem led teams that developed the Amber and GNAT 750 (predecessors of the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems, as well as the A160 Hummingbird Optimum-Speed Rotor UAV, now a Boeing product.[1]

Karem's company, Leading Systems, had since gone bankrupt and been bought up by US defense contractor General Atomics. The CIA secretly bought five drones (now called the "GNAT") from them. Karem agreed to produce a quiet engine, which until then sounded like "a lawnmower in the sky". The new development became rechristened the "Predator".[2]

The Hummingbird was developed by Frontier Aircraft. In May 2004, the company was acquired by Boeing[3] and integrated into Boeing Phantom Works and then into the Advanced Systems group of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.

In early 2008, Karem Aircraft teamed with Lockheed Martin in offering Karem's Optimum Speed Tilt-Rotor (OSTR) design for the US Department of Defense's Joint Heavy Lift program.[1][4]
Products

Frontier Aircraft

    Amber
    GNAT 750
    Boeing A160 Hummingbird

References

    ^ a b "Lockheed Martin and Karem Aircraft Team to Support Department of Defense Joint Heavy Lift Program", Lockheed Martin, February 29, 2008.
    ^ Steve Coll, Ghost Wars (Penguin, 2005 edition), pp. 527-8 and 658 note 5.
    ^ Boeing Frontiers Online
    ^ Warwick, Graham. "Lockheed joins Karem in OSTR programme", Flightglobal.com, 11 March 2008.

External links

    Karem Aircraft home page
    VERTIFLITE Rotorcraft forecast 2006-2015
    Optimum Speed Tilt Rotor OSTR on globalsecurity.org
    Joint Heavy Lift (JHL) on globalsecurity.org
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Re: Even U.S. Drones were invented by an Israeli
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2012, 07:57:43 PM »
Why didn't he develop this technology in israel so that israel would be the leader in drones?  This story has a tragic component IMO.

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Re: Even U.S. Drones were invented by an Israeli
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2015, 11:33:21 PM »
Israel nor abe karem invented the drone, drones have been used by western nations before Israel was even a country. Israel's first drones were imported American made teledyne ryan firebees (called shadmit drones by the Israelis http://www.davidpride.com/Aviation/IAF/IAF_127.htm ). Israel received basic recon versions from the americans but the US had sophisticated combat firebees and flew several thousand missions in Vietnam . The US had a total control UCAV drone with real time TV feed as early as the 1940s https://www.flickr.com/photos/alimarante/5321495987/  TDNs could drop bombs, torpedoes or be rammed kamikaze style and technically were used in combat during WW2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RQcUtzAe98. Here is a 1950s era drone group US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3205th_Drone_Group. UK pioneered this field especially Reginald denny --UAV pioneer his company provided 15,000 drones to the US again before the existence of the state of Israel  To put things in perspective as great as Israeli is in drone technology they have not a single jet powered drone, nor have ever fielded a "flying wing" or true stealth drone like rq180 or UKs taranis
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Re: Even U.S. Drones were invented by an Israeli
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2015, 06:15:14 PM »
Israel is Top Notch on Technology....that is no accident....Being endowed by the Creator... Amen