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Rockets and Missiles, Appendix 4: Undesignated Vehicles
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Surveillance Agency drone designations
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Aviation: A Brief History of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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horizontally opposed piston engine, 100 hp (75 kW)
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Volume 6 part 2, February 1961. American Rocket
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among a number of payloads; options included television,
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
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330:List of military aircraft of the United States
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502:International Missile and Spacecraft Guide
436:"JATO Snooper Missile Has Changeable Nose"
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140:horizontally-opposed piston engine
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335:List of unmanned aerial vehicles
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131:, the Snooper was of
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183:infrared photography
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341:References
286:30 minutes
284:Endurance:
155:solid fuel
346:Citations
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215:Data from
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159:autopilot
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620:Fighters
569:Republic
297:See also
125:AN/USD-3
110:for the
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810:Snooper
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408:page 58
235:Length:
171:airbags
129:Sky Spy
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