by Robert Beckhusen | May 2, 2013 | Monitor
Killer drone tech is slowly spreading. In a first, the United Kingdom has carried out a strike in Afghanistan by pilots controlling the drone from within Britain.
by Noah Shachtman and David Axe | Oct 29, 2012 | Monitor
A MQ-9 Reaper drone on the runway in Ft. Drum, New York. Photo: USAF Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn’t secured the transmissions of more than half of its fleet of Predator and Reaper...
by David Axe | Aug 13, 2012 | Monitor
An MQ-9 Reaper in Iraq in 2008. Photo: Air Force More secret bases. More and better unmanned warplanes. More frequent and deadly robotic attacks. Some five years after a U.S. Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flew the type’s first mission over lawless Somalia,...