Drone Strike!: UCAVs and Unmanned Aerial Warfare in the 21st Century Hardcover – January 16, 2017

Bill Yenne's book Bird of Prey discussed the evolution and development of unmanned aircraft, most notably the Predator, Reaper, Global Hawk, and Pioneer drones. However, this latest UAV book by Yenne talks exclusively about the development of the UCAV. As a matter of fact, it discusses not just the American UCAVs and their counterparts in the UK, France, Austria, Germany, and Italy, but also gratefully includes UCAVs developed in Russia, Iran, India, China, and Pakistan, considering that the PRC has built its own stealth drone and Iran has built a copy of the RQ-170 Sentinel. Also of note is the development of the RQ-180 long-range spy UAV and solar-powered UAVs.

Great collection of photographs and information on the latest drone technology being developed.

Good summary of military drones.

Since the beginning of the new century the drones revolutionized the whole scene of Air Power: now “the war of drones” is no more belonging to sci.fi movie, but by long time is a reality.This very interesting book can be considered the second volume of “Bird of prey” written and published by the same effective team Yenne/Specialty press. This book analyzed the drone world since the beginning till to year 2010, whereas this new analyzes all the huge improvements since that date and traces the future.Bill Yenne is quite effective in describing the fact packed operational history of Predator, Reaper and many more UCAVs. True gems are the chapters devoted to the complex operational organization, the C3I communication network and the related command hierarchy that in some critical missions reaches also the President of the USA.Then there is a technical and historical overview of the main drones all over the world, with our poor Europe enchained many times in national pride nonsense that tracked to disaster too many projects.The book put a glimpse in the future with the Collier Trophy awarded X-47B and other incredible developments: a must have for any aviation fan and many defense analysts too.

A fine book ,well written with nice pictures. I enjoy reading it.It gives you a different view of aviation airplanes.Must buy.Gary