August 2025 – Drone Wars UK
1 post published by Matthew Croft during August 2025| Drone Wars UK
The current government places a central emphasis on technology and innovation in its evolving national security strategy, and wider approach to governance. Labour proposes reviving a struggling Bri…| Drone Wars UK
Despite grave ethical and legal concerns about the introduction of AI into decision making around the use of lethal force, the UK is rapidly pressing ahead with a number of programmes and projects …| Drone Wars UK
Drone Wars database of which countries have armed drones.| Drone Wars UK
Three weeks ago, on June 10, a British Reaper drone began tracking a motorcycle in north-western Syria near the border with Turkey as it began to be ridden by a someone described by British intelli…| Drone Wars UK
While there appears to be a consensus between mainstream political parties, officials and defence commentators that a significant increase in spending on drone and military AI systems would be a po…| Drone Wars UK
The UK’s Military Aviation Authority (MAA) has issued ‘Military Type Certification’ to the UK’s new ‘Protector’ armed drone, meaning that it is now free to fly within UK airspace, including o…| Drone Wars UK
While behind-the-scenes wrangling on the final details of the latest Strategic Defence Review continue, the overall message is crystal clear: the UK intends to significantly increase military spending. To enable this there have already been a number of government decisions designed to make funds available, in particular, for new weapons technology and programmes. In November, … Read more Companies vying for share of purloined aid budget as UK plans to spend big on drones and military tech| Drone Wars UK
Research by Drone Wars UK has revealed the extent of civilian harm caused by military drone strikes across African states, including Ethiopia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan. ‘Death…| Drone Wars UK
The number of states now operating armed MALE drones has risen to forty-eight according to data compiled by Drone Wars UK (see full data here). While operators insist that such systems enable them …| Drone Wars UK
To what ends might the United States Department of Defence have developed an unmanned, highly-manoeuvrable ‘spaceplane’? Why have its lengthy missions – lasting as long as two and a half years – b…| Drone Wars UK
Last December a select committee of the House of Lords published ‘Proceed with Caution’: a report setting out the findings of a year-long investigation into the use of artificial intell…| Drone Wars UK
