A short overview with last week's updates from our network, including Article36, DroneWars UK, and the Stimson Center. If you have events or updates to share with our network, you may forward them to info {at} efadrones.org....
A short overview of the news this week, including updates from us, Airwars en Rete Italiana per il Disarmo....
The US Department of Defense has released its latest roadmap for unmanned systems, describing how such systems might be integrated in defense operations across all domains. It discusses manned-unmanned teaming, autonomy of unmanned systems, and weaponization of such systems, amongst other things. ...
EFAD Member Airwars is looking for a new advocacy officer and conflict researcher, based at PAX in Utrecht. Airwars monitors international military activities in several regions, and lobbies for more transparancy and public accountability for such activities. This particular position focuses on the Dutch and Belgian military forces, which both are ranked amongst the least transparent nations fighting in the...
Drones continue to proliferate across the globe, and the African continent is no exception. The advantages drones offer for agricultural, medical, or humanitarian purposes have been well discussed. However, the military use of drones is promising to take off as an increasing number of states and actors in Africa acquire (armed) UAVs. This is particularly exemplified by the undergoing construction...
In our monthly press review, we translate, analyze and summarize news from various European publications on the issues of drones. July 2018 saw increased proliferation as the US sold drones across the world, a theft of drone-documents which were sold on the darkweb, and more concerns raised over drone strikes and the algorithms behind them....
A short overview of the news this week, including updates from us, PAX and the Stimson Centre. ...
As part of our effort to investigate how countries consider and use armed drones, we have added our analysis of Estonia to our growing depository. The page is now available and accesible via our countries map....