Less than a week ago, the UK MoD announced that British Reaper drones over Afghanistan are now being controlled directly from the UK. This morning a number of British defence journalists are reporting that the first British drone strike from UK… Read More ›
The Times is today reporting that the UK Defence Select Committee is to hold an inquiry into the use of armed drones: Members of the Commons Defence Select Committee are to investigate the deployment of armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in… Read More ›
This week we have been updated on some basic figures in relation to British drones in Afghanistan. In the House of Lords, Defence Minister Lord Hever detailed the number of UAVs in service in Afghanistan with British forces. As we… Read More ›
The Guardian has tonight revealed that the RAF will ‘stand-up’ its new drone squadron – 13 Squadron - at a ceremony at RAF Waddington this Friday (26th Oct). The UK’s five armed Reaper drones are currently piloted from Creech Air… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
On the day that 12 British parliamentarians wrote a joint letter to The Times calling on President Obama to stop drone strikes in Pakistan, it has been revealed that RAF pilots flew US drones during the Libyan conflict last year…. Read More ›
British and French Defence Ministers Phillip Hammond and Jean-Yves Le Drian met in London on Tuesday to discuss progress of the Anglo-French defence treaty signed in 2010. A key element of the treaty was to work jointly on unmanned drones… Read More ›
Some new information has emerged this week about future British drone programmes as BAE Systems held a media briefing at their Warton site to talk about their unmanned projects (our invitation was presumably lost in the post). According to the report by… Read More ›
Our post last week analysing the available information about UK drone strikes in Afghanistan was covered by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, as well as The Daily Mail (which interestingly included criticism of some strikes by a retired British Major… Read More ›
We are publishing from today a list of known UK drone strikes in Afghanistan. The list will be regularly updated when information becomes available. The UK Drone Strike List is available here In summary: Some details of 80 (40%) of UK drone strikes… Read More ›
