Pentagon crashed more than 400 military drones

Published time: June 20, 2014 20:56

While unmanned drones have become a popular weapon of choice during the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a new report reveals that hundreds of them have been involved in major accidents around the world.

Following an investigation into more than 50,000 pages of federal…

Moroccan national planned to use ‘drone-like flying bomb’ on federal building

Published time: April 08, 2014 03:20

A Moroccan national was arrested in Bridgeport, Connecticut for allegedly planning to use a radio-controlled model airplane as a “drone-like flying bomb,” with the aim of slamming it into a school and a federal building.

The FBI arrested El Mehdi Semlali Fahti, 27, after “wires and…

Police testing surveillance drones in Oslo

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US base in Greenland part of spy programme

The information gathered at Thule is used by the American intelligence services and drone programme

December 2, 2013

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by Ray Weaver

Fully one third of the information gathered at Thule Tracking Station (TTS) – the US…

Push for lift-off on drone deliveries in Australia

October 15, 2013

Ben Grubb

Deputy technology editor

Australia may soon be the first country in the world to see commercial courier deliveries by drone, if a launch by a textbook rental service and an…

Air Force drone crashes and explodes in Florida, shutting down highway (VIDEO)

Published time: July 17, 2013 15:28 

Edited time: July 17, 2013 19:14

A United States military drone presumed to be a QF-4 crashed, exploded and sent up a large black cloud of smoke Wednesday morning at Tyndall Air Force Base.

Local news outlets from the Florida panhandle region…

Iran unveils ‘Epic’ new drone

Published time: May 10, 2013 00:51

Much has been said already of the vast US military drone program, but Iran has just unveiled the latest of its own autonomous aircraft in a bid to highlight recent advances in the drive to build its own drone fleet.

Designated as the Hemaseh in Farsi, meaning 'epic' in English, Iran’s latest reconnaissance-combat…

Dan Roberts

The Guardian

May 2, 2013

The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay.

John Bellinger, who was responsible for drafting the legal framework for…

Anti-drone protest in UK over domestic opening of Reaper control center

CIA must respond to request about secret drone program

Published time: March 15, 2013 14:54

A federal appeals court says that the Central Intelligence Agency was wrong to refuse a Freedom of Information Act request for details on the CIA’s drone program.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a FOIA request with…

With the sophistication of drone technology moving at a rapid pace, their size and prices are coming down just as fast, it’s likely that more drones will be filling the skies and pushing the limits of privacy. You need to understand just how much these drones can see and how easily and silently they can hover high above a location. Armed drones pose additional threats. Check out:…

FAA takes major step in expanding drone use in America

Published: 15 February, 2013, 22:09

US President Barack Obama has approved legislation that is expected to immediately accelerate the use of domestic surveillance drones within the United States.

On Thursday, Pres. Obama signed the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, a…

Aeryon Labs has submitted a bid to provide this 3-pound “Scout” surveillance drone to Alameda County.

OAKLAND, California — Will Alameda County become California’s first local government to deploy a drone?

If the decision were up to dozens of angry residents and…

SIX CHILDREN were attacked in Afghanistan and Pakistan this past week.

Three of them, teenage girls on a school bus in Peshawar, in the tribal region of western Pakistan, were shot and gravely wounded by two Taliban gunmen who were after Malala Yousufzai, a…

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29 dead in a little over a week. Nearly 200 gone this year. The White House is stepping up its campaign of drone attacks in Yemen, with four strikes in eight days. And not even the slaying of 10 civilians over the weekend seems to have slowed the pace in the United States’ secretive, undeclared war.

At this week’s Democratic National Convention in…

Melissa Melton

Infowars.com

August 31, 2012

Shocking video published online by extremist Yemeni group Ansar al-Shariah shows a man being crucified on a utility pole as a spy for his alleged U.S. sympathies. The man, along with two others, was executed for supposedly attempting to aid U.S. forces in carrying out drone strikes.

According to the…

Pilotless fighter will fly over UK from 2013 - and robot plane could lead to passenger aircraft with no one at the controls

• Robot fighter is bigger than drone
  
  
• Can stay airborne for 24 hours with no human on board
• Technology could be used for pilotless passenger aircraft…

Iran starts cloning of American spy drone

Published: 22 April, 2012, 14:15

Iran has completed reverse-engineering of the captured US spy drone and has started building its own copy, Iranian media reports.

The Revolutionary Guard is yet to decode parts of the software the Sentinel aircraft…