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MoD Police Try Out UAV
Wethersfield, UK (SPX) Feb 17, 2009
In recent years Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been used in a number of high profile military deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the technology has been adapted for domestic use and is attracting the interest of a number of Police Forces and other civilian agencies. Merseyside Police and British Transport Police have already introduced UAVs into service and many others, including ... read more

US drones are based in Pakistan: senator
Washington (AFP) Feb 13, 2009
The missile-firing drones that the United States uses to strike suspected insurgents in Pakistan take off and land from a base inside that country, a US senator has revealed. Senator Dianne Feinstein's disclosure was unusual because the US government has refused to acknowledge conducting missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas, a public source of tension between the two countries. ... more
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