European countries are piling more pressure on the US to allow them to buy armed Predator and Reaper drones. As we have previously reported Germany wants to buy armed Reaper drones from the US and France too has reported this… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Drone proliferation’
Review of the Year Part 2: A Year of Drone Expansion and Proliferation
A year of expansion was signalled in January when President Obama, flanked by an array of senior military officers, stood in front of the media at the Pentagon to announce a new US military plan. Entitled ‘Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership:… Read More ›
Mapping drone proliferation: big business vs. the MTCR
A new US Congress report on the proliferation of drones has confirmed a huge rise in the number of countries that now have military unmanned aerial systems. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published an unclassified version of its February… Read More ›
Is Drone Proliferation about to Explode?
Over the past few months we have been compiling information about which countries have large drones in military service. We have posted the results of our research here in our new database of large drones in military service. According to… Read More ›
Drones at DSEi 2011
Drones were big news at this year’s DSEi arms fair, with many of the smaller ‘niche’ players launching new product and the ‘big boys’ showing off their wares and engaging in verbal fisticuffs about whose drone was biggest/ brightest/best. BAE… Read More ›
DSEi Does Drones
Thousands of military buyers will descend on London next week to be wooed, wined and dined by military salesmen from the world’s largest arms companies. Many of those buyers will arrive with the same item at the top of their… Read More ›
Doubling the Drones
The rise of the drone seems to know no bounds. Just months after David Cameron’s pledge to double the UK’s Reaper drone fleet, the latest US military aircraft procurement plan shows that the Pentagon is also planning to double number of large… Read More ›
US set to Dominate Expanding Drone Market, Little Sympathy for the Victims
A recent study by the Teal Group has predicted that spending on UAVs will double in the decade 2010 – 2020, with total spending on drones in the decade to be around $94 billion. (see graph below) The report also predicts… Read More ›
Proliferation and protests
Apologies for the recent silence but I was, as they say, unavoidably detained. Proliferation of drones continues apace with Israel’s recent delivery 12 drones to Russia in a $400m deal and Brazil ordering further Hermes 450 drones. Meanwhile the USAF… Read More ›
More Drone Strikes, More Drone Proliferation
Unmanned CIA drones strikes have continued this week in Pakistan with seven people killed in a strike on an Afghan refugee camp in North Waziristan on Sunday (10th Oct) , eight killed in a strike on Wednesday (13th Oct) four… Read More ›
