Abraham Karem (born 1937) is a designer of fixed and rotary-wing unmanned aircraft.
Abraham Karem was born in Baghdad, Iraq, to an Assyrian Jewish couple.
[1] Karem has been described by The Economist magazine as the man who "created the robotic plane that transformed the way modern warfare is waged and continues to pioneer other airborne innovations".
[1] Leading Systems has since gone bankrupt and was bought up by the US defense contractor General Atomics, which employed Karem and his team for the development of ultra-high endurance UAVs.
[2] In 2010, Karem was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles and variable rotor speed VTOL aircraft systems.