If, for example, the drone from which the fatal attack on Atef was launched had sensed that his car was overtaking a school bus, it might then have held fire.
Last year, Libyan opposition forces trying to overthrow the dictator Moammar Gadhafi bought a sophisticated surveillance drone from a Canadian company for which they paid in the low six figures.
Ruyle was one of several proponents of the drone ban from groups who expressed fears that drones would be used to spy on citizens.
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Yet despite the controversial nature of using drones, which raises legal and moral questions, American journalists have been relatively restrained in their coverage and they have tended to report on the drone programme from the perspective of the United States government.
By crunching data from drone sensors and military databases, it might be possible to predict, for example, that a strike from a missile could damage a nearby religious building.
In Yemen, civilian deaths from drone strikes are undermining U.S. efforts to turn the populace against militants.
However, the fact that operators are often located far from the setting in which missions unfold helps explain both the high loss rates of early years and the collateral (unintended) damage that sometimes results from drone attacks on ground targets.
The Iranian plane never got closer than 16 miles from the drone, the Pentagon said.
Liquid Robotics, the US company behind the project, collected data about the Pacific Ocean's temperature, salinity and ecosystem from the drone.
Much of America's drone operation is hidden from view, carried out by the CIA and thus away from public gaze and accountability.
But U.S. officials say they will continue to carry out drone strikes, launched from bases in neighboring Afghanistan or anywhere else al-Qaida and its affiliates operate and local governments can't or won't act.
Despite the fact that the pace of drone strikes slowed considerably from 2010 to 2011, the number of strikes last year still ranked as the second-highest annual count since the drone program began.
There is still considerable debate over how the U.S. government defines a "militant" and how easily it is able to distinguish between militants and civilians from a drone cruising tens of thousands of feet above the ground.
In a press release from November, SHARK said the camera feed went out on a drone camera after a single shot from the shooting range.
Law enforcement officers tried to prevent SHARK from flying a drone in South Carolina in February 2012, Hindi said.
Jonathan Downey, founder of Y Combinator-backed Airware, says he had the rough idea for the drone software company before graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.
He worries that a new, updated Raven will cannibalize sales from the larger Puma drone.
There exists a juvenile-growth hormone which prevents the ants from maturing past the drone stage.
The Pentagon deploys robots to find roadside explosives in Afghanistan and wages war from the air with drone aircraft.
Man the battlements once data streams are unleashed from the still nascent drone revolution, or the flurry of bio-sensors that the Millennial generation seems eager to embrace, wear and likely soon embed.
In the United States, people can fly model aircraft without approval from the Federal Aviation Administration if they keep the drone in line of sight, lower than 400 feet above ground and away from airports and air traffic.
Obama's address came amid increased pressure from Congress on both the drone program and the status of the Guantanamo prison.
The RQ-4A Global Hawk drone crashed during a routine training flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, according to Jamie Cosgrove, a spokeswoman for the Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons Program at the base.
Of course, Samsung has indeed said it intends to appeal (and an internal memo reported by CNET corroborates this), so it would seem that the proxy battle against Android is far from over, and the drone of legalese is sure to continue.
Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and France are working on a joint project through state-owned aeronautical companies and are in the final stages of developing an advanced armed drone prototype called the Dassault nEURon, from which the France plans to derive armed drones for its air force.
The organization rapidly grew into nine companies, providing everything from bomb-sniffing dogs to drone reconnaissance aircraft.
They can also significantly reduce civilian casualties: a drone strike often replaces a big bomb dropped from a fighter jet.
The Air Force uses an array of aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, the high-altitude Global Hawk drone or satellites and systems that can gather intelligence from space.
State Department Headquarters in Washington had been following events around the consulate all day from on-site surveillance cameras and a drone overhead.
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