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December 27, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/rise-of-the-drone-from-calif-garage-to-multibillion-dollar-defense-industry/2011/12/22/gIQACG

Israeli Started U.S. Drone Industry

(Washington Post) Peter Finn - In 1980, Abraham Karem, an engineer who had emigrated from Israel, retreated into his garage outside Los Angeles and began to build an aircraft. When Karem finished a year later, he wheeled into his driveway an odd, cigar-shaped craft that was destined to change the way the U.S. wages war. More than a decade of development later, Karem's drone became the Predator, whose controllers thousands of miles away in the U.S. launch Hellfire missiles toward targets they are watching on video screens.

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