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US House committee targets UAV programmes Two unmanned aircraft systems could be scaled back next year under a new version of the fiscal year 2012 spending bill, despite a deployment surge to Afghanistan. Purchases of the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout, the vertical take-off unmanned air...

Now the Navy gets a 'drone' of its own: Unmanned attack boat to be used against marit Military chiefs have tested a revolutionary unmanned attack boat to use in the war against maritime terrorists and pirates who threaten British ships. The new £8million remote-controlled craft – which...

The Flaws of the Silent Killer The classified situation report from the "RC East" region in eastern Afghanistan at first reads like a routine transcript: "Oct. 17, 2009: At approximately 1300 ANA (Afghan National Army) received intelligence that approximately 20 insurgents were moving south of...