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    The Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug is a jet-powered drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle, produced and developed by Ryan Aeronautical from the earlier Ryan Firebee...
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  • by the US Marine Corps Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug was a drone, or unmanned aerial vehicle during the 1960s USS Assail (AM-147) was a United States Navy...
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    vehicle's success led to Ryan being asked to develop a reconnaissance version, which became the highly successful Model 147 Fire Fly and Lightning Bug...
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    The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California, in 1934. It became part of Teledyne in 1969, and of Northrop Grumman...
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    Service ceiling: 50,000 m (160,000 ft) North American X-15 Lockheed D-21 Ryan Model 147 "Cloud Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)". Airforce Technology. Shepherd...
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    North Vietnamese Navy initiated America's highly classified UAVs (Ryan Model 147, Ryan AQM-91 Firefly, Lockheed D-21) into their first combat missions of...
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    to perform long-range reconnaissance, especially into China. The Ryan Model 147 Lightning Bug reconnaissance drone was enjoying success in Vietnam in...
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    electronic monitoring, such as the RB-47, RB-57, Boeing RC-135 and the Ryan Model 147 drones. Since the Cold War much of the strategic reconnaissance aircraft...
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    Flak training; the Ryan Firebee was a jet-powered target drone developed into long-range reconnaissance UAVs: the Ryan Model 147 Fire Fly and Lightning...
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    Cookie", Firebee target drones were modified for reconnaissance as the Ryan Model 147. The drones were test flown over North Korea and China after the Gulf...
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