October 2025 – Drone Wars UK
1 post published by Chris Cole during October 2025| Drone Wars UK
Media reports today (20 October 2025) indicate that the Defence Secretary, John Healey, will announce new powers that will allow military personnel to shoot down drones threatening military bases a…| Drone Wars UK
The US killed 11 people in a reported drone strike on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea on 3 September. Although it has not been confirmed that the strike was carried out by a drone, President Trum…| 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
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
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
