Drone Wars UK is today publishing a report that shows the UK Government has already spent over £2 billion purchasing, developing and researching drones and unmanned systems since 2007. The report, Shelling Out: UK Government Spending on Unmanned drones, finds that… Read More ›
On both sides of the Atlantic, legal challenges related to US drone use are about to hit the courts. Tomorrow the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will take the CIA to court for refusing to comply with a Freedom of… Read More ›
A new US Congress report on the proliferation of drones has confirmed a huge rise in the number of countries that now have military unmanned aerial systems. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published an unclassified version of its February… Read More ›
Drone Campaign Network launch new petition Drone Wars UK is a member of the Drone Camapign Network, an network of NGO’s and local groups in the UK campaigning on the use of drones. The network has launched a new campaign to… Read More ›
Just come across some uniform patches of USAF drone pilots and crew on this military memorabilia site. Apparently these are semi-offical ‘morale patches‘. The two patches at the bottom are the more restrained, official patches, being worn by British drone pilots and crew of RAF… Read More ›
In an obscure working document, the European Commission has announced it is working on plans to open European civil airspace to unmanned drones by 2016. This follows the signing by President Obama earlier this year of the FAA Appropriations bill… Read More ›
This week the USAF released an accident investigation report into the crash of a US Predator drone in Afghanistan in April 2012. This crash brings the number of drone crashes in our updated database to 100 (see full database here)… Read More ›
Later this month Carol Grayson, a campaigner and film-maker from Newcastle, will travel to Pakistan as part of an international peace delegation. The delegation will meet with survivors of US drone attacks, lawyers representing drone victims and political figures. The… Read More ›
