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U.S. refuses Pak proposal of joint drone attacks in country

ANI Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar has said the country had offered the U.S. to jointly carry out drone strikes in the restive Tribal Areas, but the Obama administration turned down the proposal. Mukhtar said Pakistan [...]

An airstrike killed a top al-Qaeda leader on the FBI’s most-wanted list

Ahmed Al-Haj DenverPost An airstrike Sunday killed a top al-Qaeda leader on the FBI’s most-wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials said. The drone attack was carried [...]

CIA wants more drone strikes in Yemen

RT After the United States defended last year’s assassination of American citizens abroad with “signature strikes” carried out by its controversial drone program, the CIA is now asking Washington to expand its power to conduct those [...]

Pentagon considers nuclear-powered drones

VOR American scientists are working on new-generation nuclear-powered unmanned aircraft capable of staying in the air for up to several months. Vladimir Gladkov has more. While being able to tackle a wider range of more complicated [...]

Russia wants strike drone

RiaN Russia’s Defense Ministry has issued a technical specification for development of a strike unmanned air vehicle (UAV), Izvestia daily said on Monday quoting a high-level source. Tranzas company will build the UAV’s on-board electronics as [...]

Russia to Build Mini Drone for Vietnam

RiaN Russian warplane maker Irkut has signed a contract with Vietnam to build a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the Southeast Asian country, Izvestia daily reported on Thursday. The $10 million deal, with Vietnam Aerospace [...]

New police surveillance drones could be armed with nonlethal weapons

The Daily As a Texas sheriff prepares to use an unmanned drone as his force’s eye in the sky, and perhaps even arm it with nonlethal weapons like Tasers and rubber bullets, civil liberties groups are [...]

Police Drones Are Already Here

DefenseTech So everyone noticed when Congress told the FAA to get American airspace ready for regular drone flights, this move prompted a general Internet freakout about privacy concerns. No one likes the thought of being watched [...]

US drone crashes in North Waziristan

ANI An unmanned US aircraft crashed in the Machikhel area of North Waziristan, officials have said. The unmanned US drone crashed and fell in the Machikhel area of Mira Ali Tehsil, North Wazirstan due to what officials believe [...]

NATO to spend 3.0 billion euros on drone program

AFP via Space War NATO will spend 3.0 billion euros ($3.9 billion) to buy and operate five US-built drones over 20 years in an effort to fill a gap exposed in the Libyan air war, an [...]

Drone lobby cracks open American Skies: “Enabling unmanned drones to fly freely in civil airspace”

Drone Wars UK The drone lobby in the US has had a stunning success in pushing its agenda of enabling unmanned drones to fly freely in civil airspace. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Bill has been [...]

Drone crashes near Somalia refugee camp

DNA An unidentified drone crashed near a camp for displaced people in the outskirts of Somali capital Mogadishu, Xinhua reported. “A drone or unmanned aerial craft crashed near Badbaado camp but we don’t know whose it is,” Paddy Akunda, spokesman for [...]

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