The CIA is to redeploy some Predator drones from Pakistan to the arabian peninsula so they can step up the ‘war against terror’ in Yemen and Somalia. The Wall Street Journal revealed this week that: “U.S. military’s Special Operation Forces… Read More ›
Archive for August 2010
USAF/CIA argue over the ‘honour’ of drone wars as Iran unveils drone
Iran has unveiled a new long-range drone named Karrar which has a range of 1,000km and could carry two 250-pound bombs or a precision bomb of 500 pounds. According to the BBC, President Ahmadinejad said that the new drone was a… Read More ›
Iran, Israel and Drones
There has been a lot of drone-related activity in the middle east at the moment – mainly involving Iran and Israel. Two weeks after it happened, it was reported on Aug. 16th that the ‘father’ of Iran’s UAV programme, Reza Baruni,… Read More ›
US Army Special Forces Unit Gets New Drone
Strategy Page has revealed that US Army Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has received the first of the new Sky Warrior drones. Sky Warrior is a “substantially advanced” and updated version on the Predator drone (Wikipedia has details here). The SOCOM MQ-1C unit, is… Read More ›
