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The Silence From Both Candidates On The Drone Wars Means The World Better Get...
The two presidential candidates have had very little to say about the sleek weapons of war known to the military as Unmanned Arial Vehicles and the public as "drones." Other than an oblique...
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UN To Investigate Civilian Deaths From US Drone Strikes
The United Nations is to set up a dedicated investigations unit in Geneva early next year to examine the legality of drone attacks in cases where civilians are killed in so-called "targeted"...
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Iranian Fighter Jets Fired On Unarmed US Drone
Two Iranian fighter jets fired on an unarmed US drone last week, according to reports on CNN.According to Pentagon sources, the drone was in the international airspace of Kuwait. It was not hit in the...
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Iran Launches Massive Air Drill As 'Warning' To Enemies
Iran on Monday launched an air defence exercise a general said was aimed at optimising its deterrent capabilities as well as sending a "strong warning" to those threatening it with military strikes.The...
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China Is Manufacturing Drones To Sell To Developing Countries
ZHUHAI, China — Although China’s drone technology may be several years behind top manufacturers in the United States and Israel, the country’s unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers are hoping their...
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Homeland Security Wants To Double Its Domestic Drone Fleet
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to more than double its fleet of Predator drones for surveillance missions inside the United States, Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
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The Pentagon Is 'Alarmed' By China's Big Move Into Drones
The U.S. is worried about the rapid growth of China's drone industry, Mark McDonald of the International Herald Tribune reports. China will display several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at an air...
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Iran's Latest Drone Capture Shows Why We Need Next-Gen Drones
First: The Pentagon has announced that the drone Iran captured is likely from the U.S.Second: Iran claims to have spoofed it.Spoofing is when a group of hackers overloads that connection and then...
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Today's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Will Be Totally Useless In The Pacific Theater
The vast fleet of military drones the Pentagon has at its disposal will likely be worth very little in the Pacific, against more advanced, capable enemies, according to a report by Dave Majumdar of the...
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Street Artist Arrested For Posting Ads About The 'Safety' Of Drones
An art-school graduate has been arrested for allegedly putting up about 100 faux NYPD drone ads in various spots around the city, according to Shayne Jacobs of The New York Daily News.Last week the...
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A Kenyan Game Reserve Uses Drones To Protect The Rhinos
One of Kenya's best known private game reserves announced Friday a plan to fly unmanned surveillance drones to monitor and protect critically endangered rhinos from rampant poaching.Ol Pejeta, a...
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Report: Israel Was Allegedly Using An 'Electronically Tagged Vulture' As A...
Officials in Sudan say they have captured an electronically-tagged vulture suspected of being dispatched by Israel on a spying mission.The avian discovery was made in Kereinek, a town in the Darfur...
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The Pentagon Hopes To Arm Drones With Laser Weapons Inside Five Years
General Atomics is developing a powerful laser that can be fitted to an unmanned drone, Mark Thompson of Time reports.Last year the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) gave General...
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Obama May Need The NDAA To Justify Widespread Use Of Drones
We've covered how President Obama needs the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to justify detention powers he has used for the past four years, but there's another reason he needs it: drones.At...
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Joe Scarborough Rips Liberals For Hypocritical Reaction To 'Zero-Dark-Thirty'
The blindness of liberals to Obama's drone policy along with their outcry about waterboarding has rankled MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.Liberals (plus John McCain) are furious at the waterboarding scene in...
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The NYU Student Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A...
NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime.Known as the...
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Drones And SEALs Have Cleared The Way For Massive Military Cuts
If there's one thing the Osama bin Laden raid proved, it's that the man hadn't been in Afghanistan for years.Meanwhile, what was in Afghanistan were tons of U.S. troops and equipment, which take an...
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'Did We Just Kill A Kid?' — The Six Words That Ended A US Drone Pilot's Career
The New Mexico desert gets blistering hot, but inside the small windowless container where Brandon Bryant worked as a drone operator in the U.S. Air Force it stays a cool 63 degrees all year...
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Google Earth Satellite Catches This Drone Mid-Flight Over Nevada
Dronestagram creator and London artist James Bridle recently noticed that a Google Earth satellite caught a drone in flight at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.Creech is host to a smorgasbord of Air...
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We're About To Be Living In A Drone-Filled World
When we hear about drones, some of us tend to think about war, destruction, lost lives, and other horrible things.But there are several other use cases for these unmanned aerial vehicles that have...
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