The Drone Center Weekly Roundup

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 6/5/17

May 29, 2017 – June 4, 2017 News A German court has thrown out a protest filed by U.S. drone maker General Atomics Aeronautical Systems over the German military’s decision to acquire the I...

05 June 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 5/29/17

May 22, 2017 – May 28, 2017 News A U.S. drone strike reportedly killed three members of the Pakistani Taliban. According to the Associated Press, the strike targeted a compound in Khost provi...

30 May 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 3/6/17

February 27, 2017 – March 5, 2017 At the Center for the Study of the Drone We spoke to The Daily Beast to help make sense of ISIL’s growing use of armed consumer drones in the conflict in Sy...

06 March 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 2/13/17

February 6, 2017 – February 12, 2017 At the Center for the Study of the Drone Loitering munitions are a proliferating class of drones that double as precision attack weapons. These systems, wh...

14 February 2017, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/28/16

The Weekly Drone Roundup is a newsletter from the Center for the Study of the Drone. It covers news, commentary, analysis and technology from the drone world....

28 November 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/21/16

November 14, 2016 – November 20, 2016 At the Center for the Study of the Drone In our ongoing effort to track drone deployments globally, we have made two new previously unreported discoveries...

22 November 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 11/14/16

November 7, 2016 – November 13, 2016 News President Obama has directed the Department of Defense to target the leadership of Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syria-based organization that has been linked t...

14 November 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/31/16

October 24, 2016 – October 30, 2016 At the Center for the Study of the Drone Last year, we posted one of our regular “Need to Know” cheat sheets about the growing field of underwater drone...

31 October 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/10/16

October 3, 2016 – October 9, 2016 News A U.S. drone strike in Syria killed Abu al-Farai al-Masri, an Egyptian-born veteran of al-Qaeda and leader of Jabhat al-Nusra. According to a statement b...

11 October 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 10/3/16

September 26, 2016 – October 2, 2016 News A U.S. drone strike killed at least fifteen people in Afghanistan’s eastern Achin district. The United Nations reported that the individuals who di...

04 October 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/19/16

September 12, 2016 – September 18, 2016 News A U.S. airstrike in Syria reportedly killed Wael Adel Salman, the information minister for the Islamic State group. According to a U.S. official wh...

19 September 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 9/12/16

At the Center for the Study of the Drone We are a decade into what is often described as “the drone revolution,” a period of remarkable growth in the development, proliferation, and use of mili...

12 September 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/25/16

News A federal judge ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration has the authority to require Austin and Bret Haughwout to turn over documents relating to two homemade drones. In 2015, the Haugh...

26 July 2016, by Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College