Likvidator. Otkroveniia operatora boevogo drona - Tomas Mark Makkerli, Kevin Maurer

In the crosshairs, you see a bearded man standing next to a car and talking on the phone. He does not know yet that the weapon is tested, the laser is induced, and now the suspension can break the rocket. He doesn't know you've been watching him from the air in the last few months, and you've learned his life by heart. A life that may end now because of one movement of your finger - as if on exhilarating gladiatorial games. You are a representative of a rare profession: the operator of a drone, about which many have heard, but few people know in detail. And the memoirs of Colonel Thomas Mark McCurley, who was at the origins of the Predator project - a drone with weapons on board - tell about the combat use of the device in such detail that you can easily imagine yourself in the pilot's seat. This is a weapon of a new era - the pilot controls the UAV thousands of kilometers away, using a joystick and satellite communication, receiving orders to chat. Funny and terrible events, international army humor and mess (and not only) - all in this extremely frank book.