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New Generation Of US Nuclear-Powered Drones Would Be Able To Fly For Months...
U.S. government researchers have drawn up plans for a new generation of nuclear-powered drones capable of flying over remote regions of the world for months on end without refuelling, as reported by...
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The Pentagon Is About To Buy A Bunch Of These New Drones For Troops On The...
The U.S. Military will increase its number of armed and long-haul surveillance drones to 645 in 2022 from about 445 in 2013, as reported by Roxana Tiron at Bloomberg. The unmanned aerial vehicles...
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FAA Reveals 63 Drone Launch Sites On US Territory
The Pentagon is launching drones and spy planes from at least 63 locations within the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration released the data following a Freedom of Information Act...
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US Drone Attacks In Pakistan Could Well Be Doing More Harm Than Good
On Sunday, a US drone attacked an abandoned girls’ school in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan, killing three Islamist militants and wounding two, The New York Times reports. The attack goes...
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US Companies Are Selling Drones To Anonymous Foreign Governments
U.S. corporations are selling drones to undisclosed foreign governments for anti-narcotics and anti-terrorism operations, according to Teddy Wilson at The American Independent. The global market for...
View ArticleFox News Analyst: First American To Shoot Down A Domestic Spy Drone 'Will...
Charles Krauthammer, the conservative columnist spoke about the use of drones for domestic spying last night. He blasted the idea: "A drone is a high-tech version of an old army. It ought to be used...
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At Least 20 US Special Forces Troops Are On The Ground In Yemen
A group of around 20 U.S. special operations forces are on the ground in Yemen, reports the Los Angeles Times. Reuters reports that at least one of those troops was shot and seriously wounded on...
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Obama's Drone War In Yemen May Be Al Qaeda's Best Recruitment Tool Ever
President Barack Obama's escalation of covert war in Yemen is leading to untold civilian casualties and increased support for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), according to multiple reports....
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The Italian Drone Fleet You Didn't Know About Is Getting Hellfire Weapons...
The U.S. plans to arm Italy's fleet of drones and U.S. officials say that Italy intends to initially deploy them in Afghanistan, reports Adam Entous of the Wall Street Journal. The $17 million upgrade...
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Shady US Drone Tactics Take Out Al Qaeda Number Two Abu Yahya Al Libi And...
Three U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan over the weekend killed a total of 27 people, including 9 suspected militants and at least one civilian on Sunday when a drone fired missiles "into a gathering...
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Is The Obama Administration Really Using Drones To Target Civilians?
In a lengthy front-page story last week exploring President Obama's use of drone strikes in countries including Pakistan and Yemen, the New York Times reported that the president had "embraced a...
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POLL: Americans Are Really Uneasy About Cops Using Drones To Hand Out...
Americans support using unmanned aircraft for patrolling borders and tracking down criminals, but not handing out speeding tickets, a poll out Tuesday finds. The poll by Monmouth University Polling...
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Russia Is Planning To Spend $12 Billion On Drones Before 2020
Vladimir Putin has announced a massive increase in spending on unmanned drones, Interfax reports, with 400 billion rubles ($12 billion) in funding planned before 2020. Putin wants the entire structure...
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Obama Administration’s Drone Death Figures Don’t Add Up
Last month, a “senior administration official” said the number of civilians killed in drone strikes in Pakistan under President Obama is in the “single digits.” But last year “U.S. officials” said...
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These Expensive Drones Are Actually The Most Accident-Prone Aircraft In The...
The U.S. military's three biggest drones are the most accident-prone aircraft in the Air Force fleet, reports Brendan McGarry of Bloomberg. The RQ-4 Global Hawk, MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper drones...
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Nepal Is Planning To Start Using Unmanned Drones To Catch Poachers
With the numbers of one-horned rhinos and tigers dwindling, the World Wildlife Fund of Nepal is planning on launching two unmanned drones to patrol forests for poachers, AFP reports. The aircrafts...
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Aerial Attack Kills A Red Cross Worker In Yemen As Obama Denies Drone Program...
A worker for the international Red Cross was killed by a bomb dropped from the sky on Tuesday while undertaking humanitarian work in the Abyan province of Yemen, BBC reports. The death raises the...
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Why More And More Americans Are Abandoning Their US Citizenship
In November, millions of Americans will trudge to their local polling places to cast votes in the hope of improving their lives here in the USA. Between now and then, a few hundred Americans will vote...
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A Top Reporter In Yemen Explains What's Really Going On In The Country's...
One of the top journalists in Yemen recently spoke with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) about the fight against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the covert U.S. drone war....
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These Police Surveillance Drones Could Be Watching You Right Now
Drones have dominated the headlines lately, with investigations by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation into domestic drone use giving headaches to law enforcement all over. We pored...
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