RYAN AQM-34 G thru V recon drone.
AMAZON.com has a book available (it ain't cheap) called 'Lightning Bugs and Other Reconnaissance Drones' That will raise your appreciation of these little worker bees as pre programmed recon drones dropped from a special DC-130 Herk in Viet Nam (and......maybe other places) and recovered by parachute on the fly after the mission. I read the book many moons ago and my level of appreciation went right to the top, Amazing little dudes, and pretty cheap too!

Just located a Chinese copy reverse engineered from an AQM apparently lost or shot down over VN and operated as the BEIHANG Wu Zhen-5 (WZ-5) and dropped from one of those retro fitted turboprop powered TU-4's the Chinese have or an AN-12 CUB.
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The Inspector on Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:13 pm, edited 2 times in total.