Busy autumn on drones front
After a relatively quiet summer, the military use of drones is likely to hit the headlines again this autumn UN Drone Investigation to report in October Perhaps likely to garner most column inches...
View ArticleDrones and the EU: a ‘solution’ looking for a problem
Guest post by Ben Hayes and Chris Jones. Click to download Today the Transnational Institute and Statewatch are jointly publishing a new report on the European Union and drones, entitled Eurodrones...
View Article2014 Review (Part Two): Crunch time approaches over civil drones
Drone advocates lobby Congress 2014 has been a year of growing awareness in the media of the dangers posed by civil drones, while the drone lobby and entrepreneurs on both sides of the Atlantic...
View ArticleImplications 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...
View ArticleEurope to open skies to drones by 2016 says Commission document
In an obscure working document, the European Commission has announced it is working on plans to open European civil airspace to unmanned drones by 2016. This follows the signing by President Obama...
View ArticleReview of the Year Part 2: A Year of Drone Expansion and Proliferation
A year of expansion was signalled in January when President Obama, flanked by an array of senior military officers, stood in front of the media at the Pentagon to announce a new US military plan....
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