Virus hits US drone fleet: report
A computer virus has hit the US Predator and Reaper drone fleet that Washington deploys to hunt down militants © AFP/Getty Images/File Gary Williams AFP…
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Obama: Awlaqi death ‘major blow’ to Al-Qaeda
US President Barack Obama described the death of al-Awlaqi as a “major blow” to Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni franchise © AFP/File Mandel Ngan AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) –…
US drone kills three Taliban in Pakistan: officials
A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile © AFP/File Bonny Schoonakker AFP PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A US drone strike on Friday killed…
Island of the “Hunter-Killers” — The Seychelles Sells Out to the U.S. Military
image: Maj. Eric Hillard, U.S. Africa Command John Galt Activist Post How much does it cost to purchase a tropical paradise island as a…
The Mad MUSIC of Machine Warfare
Future Combat Systems Activist Post The symphony of destruction continues to get louder, as an unabashed war project has been named MUSIC. We have been…
A future for drones: Automated killing
photo credit: Georgia Tech Research Institute Peter Finn Washington Post One afternoon last fall at Fort Benning, Ga., two model-size planes took off, climbed to…
Perpetual war: new secret American drone bases to bomb Somalia and Yemen
Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post The al Qaeda bogeyman and the sham that is the so-called war on terror continue to drain America of…
Permanent Drones Set to Take Flight Using Laser Energy
image: Aero Wiki Activist Post The latest chapter of the drone chronicles comes to us by way of Aerospace and Defense News. A research paper issued…
Judge: CIA need not release drone strike files
Wikimedia Commons photo Josh Gerstein Politico A federal judge ruled Friday that the Central Intelligence Agency does not have to release any records related to…
Turkey asks US to base Predators on its soil: report
A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile setting off from its hangar at Bagram air base in Afghanistan © AFP/File Bonny Schoonakker AFP…
6 Technologies for De-Humanizing War
Wikimedia Commons Photo Activist Post Despite the escalation of war around the globe affecting millions of people, the process of battle is becoming increasingly de-personalized. …
The Matternet: A Flying Autonomous Delivery System For The Developing World
Photo Credit – Fast Company Ariel Schwartz Fast Company Where Matternet is going, it doesn’t need roads. But the people there need food and medicine….
US surveillance drone crashes in Pakistan
A US Predator unmanned drone is pictured at Kandahar military airport © AFP/File Massoud Hossaini AFP QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) – An American surveillance drone crashed…
Global Drone Arms Race Spreading Quickly
By Nicholas West The following is the most recent update to the ongoing chronicle of the global drone arms race. It has been predicted that…