To celebrate our 200th post we have given the Drone Wars UK website a bit of a brush-up. Most obviously we have changed the appearance of the site, but there have also been some less obvious changes. Now all posts… Read More ›
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Crash!!! Its raining drones
In the same week that a UK industry insider told a drone conference in the US that the UK is preparing to take preliminary steps in plans that will eventually allow drones to fly in UK civil airspace, three drones on operation in Afghanistan… Read More ›
Now We Are One: A Few Stats
1 Drone Wars UK blog is one year old today 14 People visited looking for information about the Creech 14 64 UAV crashes reported in our Drone Crash Database 100 Posts: This is number one hundred 146 Number of visitors… Read More ›
Investigation into Drone and Helicopter near miss
The Guardian has revealed that a British Desert Hawk III drone was in a near collision with two military helicopters over Salisbury Plain. The incidents, revealed by safety investigations by the UK Airprox Board, took place on February 12th. According to the Guardian, the… Read More ›
BBC research into drone strikes in Pakistan
BBC Urdu has published new research into the undeclared war in Pakistan. They report that since January 2009 nearly 2,500 people have been killed in Pakistan as a result of US drones and Islamic militant attacks. They attribute 746 deaths… Read More ›
Drone boats and bombs
The Daily Mail has reported that British military special forces have trialled the Silver Marlin, an Israeli-built drone boat. The trials, watched by Special Boat Service and civil servants took place recently in the Middle East. According to the report, the Silver Marlin,… Read More ›
BBC America debates drones
Interesting seven minute piece on drones from BBC America.
CIA Officers Against Drones
They’re not quite picketing Langley yet, but according to this interesting report, some CIA officers do recognize that drone strikes are doing more harm than good and are speaking out against them.