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 ›
Tag Archive for ‘Drone crash’
Implications of US drone lobby success beginning to dawn
The repercussions of the drone lobby’s success in forcing open US domestic airspace to unmanned drones by 2015 are beginning to be felt across the US as civil liberties groups and politicians wake up to the implications for safety and privacy. An… Read More ›
Drone crashes continue into 2012
While the drone industry regularly boasts about the spectacular rise in the use of unmanned drones (see this report of the latest drone lobby gathering as an example) their silence on the number of drones plummeting back to earth with a bang is… Read More ›
Iran, Djibouti, Afghanistan, China: Drones Simply Keep Crashing
Our Drone Crash Database has been updated with the details of another thirteen drone crashes that have taken place over the past ten months, including the crash (or ‘hijacking’ according to the Iranians) of the US stealth drone in Iran… Read More ›
Drone ‘beast’ captured in Iran – others rampage in Afghanistan and Gaza
There has been intense media coverage of the downing of a US drone in Iran over the past week. Iran has previously claimed that it has shot down ‘Western drones’ (as we reported here) but they have never provided proof despite saying they… Read More ›
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 ›
Drones: PR, Proliferation and Prangs in the Pacific
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) have continued their excellent work exposing US drone strikes in Pakistan by publishing extensive new research. According to their research, more than 160 children are among at least 2,292 people reported killed in US… Read More ›
Drones everywhere
Obama: Sending Drones to Bomb Libya It’s been a busy week! On Monday the Guardian highlighted the MoD’s new document on the need for serious discussion on the ethics and legality of using drones (see post below), a story which… Read More ›
Pause stopped!
Congratulations to Welsh anti-drone campaigners who are celebrating news of the cancellation of ’Pause 11′ which was due to be held at Parc Aberporth in July. The event, an exhibition and flying display of UAV’s,was to be the focus of a number of protests by… Read More ›
Drones Wars 2010: Proliferation, Pushing Autonomy and Prangs
As the year draws to a close against a background of increasing drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan – between 50 and 60 people were killed in a number of separate drone strikes in Pakistan’s Khyber region this week –… Read More ›
Drone Crash Database
Over the past couple of months I have regularly ended blog posts by reporting that yet another military drone had crashed. While drones are portrayed by the defence industry and many in the media as the latest ‘invincible’ super-weapon that will make us safe… Read More ›
Drones: Stressful for some, fatal for others
An Israeli drone launched an assassination strike in Gaza this week killing two people and injuring three more. The two fatalities, killed in their vehicle as it drove along al-Wihda Street in the centre of Gaza City, were named locally as… Read More ›
