Home to roost: drones now operated from the UK
On Thursday 25 April, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that its Reaper drones had finally moved to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire; they had previously been operated from a US Air Force base in...
Category: APPG Drones Update
Oversight, accountability and drones: the case of Northern Ireland
On 11 April 2013, the Policing Board of Northern Ireland endorsed a proposal put forward by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to purchase ‘three types of Unmanned Aerial Systems’, alleged to have...
Drones for peace?
The idea of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones for monitoring peace agreements and ceasefires is not new. Indeed, back in 2006, the only direct death caused by the drone itself, rather than...
New notes posted.
A post about our latest meeting, co-hosted with the Afghanistan Withdrawal Group, are now online and can be found here.
