President Barack Obama’s administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of some drone operations against terrorism suspects overseas that are currently run by the CIA, several U.S. government sources said on Monday.
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Britain has been forced to admit that it has been funding surveys in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas that reveal US drone strikes in the region are causing deep resentment among the local population.
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Google Ventures and others have invested .7m in a drone OS startup, Airware, aiming to create autonomous, unmanned aircraft which could be used by emergency services or in civil applications such as farming and mapping.
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The X-47B is the size of a piloted fighter jet and is totally automatic — unlike previous drones which had been technically-controlled from the ground by people.
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Large civilian planes remotely operated by a controller on the ground could become a reality within just a few years, after British aerospace giant BAE conducted a successful overland UK flight of an unmanned prototype for the first time.
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Germany has cancelled a planned ‘Euro Hawk’ drone programme fearing European authorities will not certify them, a Defence Ministry source said Tuesday after reported European safety concerns.
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Lawyer who drafted White House drone policy says US would rather kill suspects than send them to Cuban detention centre
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The mystery surrounding last week’s drone incident in Israel has put top Israeli political and military leaders in a fix over the motives behind sending an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to fly toward the Jewish state at a time of escalating turmoil in the region, analysts said Monday.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who filibustered for 13 hours in March 2013 against the idea of using military drone technology against U.S. citizens, said he supported them being used against criminal suspects in an interview with Fox Business Channel on Monday.
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The White House refused to send a witness to the Senate’s first open hearing on the issue despite President Barack Obama’s vow to be more forthcoming about a counterterrorism weapon that has become a despised symbol of U.S. foreign policy in many parts of the world.
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