If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone The FBI’s secretive domestic drone program has been on a budgetary roller coaster in the past few years. Shawn Musgrave takes a …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News A U.S. Predator drone reportedly took part in a series of American airstrikes against Islamic State positions in northeastern Iraq. The drone strike hit a mortar position. President Obama announced …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News In a video posted on YouTube, separatists in Ukraine showed off a downed government reconnaissance drone that they claim to have shot down. The aircraft, a Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-143, …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News American drones struck several targets in Pakistan, reportedly killing up to 20 people. The strikes took place in Datta Khel, North Waziristan. The CIA drones targeted a mix of local …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone Joe Noci, a former military aviation executive, designs and builds sophisticated drones for anti-poaching projects in Namibia’s vast national parks. In …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News A suspected U.S. drone strike killed at least five people in Pakistan. Two missiles hit a compound near the town of Miram Shah in the North Waziristan tribal region. According …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News Three suspected al-Qaeda militants were reportedly killed in a drone strike in Yemen. According to tribal elders who spoke to Reuters, the militants were traveling in a vehicle in …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News The Los Angeles Police Department announced that it has acquired two drones that it is considering deploying for a limited number of “narrow and prescribed uses.” The small Draganflyer …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone Why is the drone debate going nowhere? Why is everyone speaking at cross purposes? Marcel La Flamme takes a close look …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. At the Center for the Study of the Drone The April issue of Harper’s Magazine featured a 16-page folio of drone-captured photos by dutch photographer Tomas van Houtryve. “Blue Sky …
Tomas van Houtryve is a prolific photojournalist who explores conflict and state-sponsored surveillance. In March, Harpers Magazine published a folio of his photographs titled “Blue Sky Days,” the longest folio in the magazine’s 164 year history. The photos, which van Houtryve took with a small drone over everyday spaces and scenes in …
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page. News In an interview with ABC News, U.S. Air Force spokesperson Jennifer Cassidy explained that drone pilots are often “less skilled” than pilots of manned aircraft because operating remote aircraft …
