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The Ministry of Defence is set to face a court hearing next week over its refusal to release information about Britain's lethal unmanned drone missions in Afghanistan. It will appear in front of the Information Tribunal on 23 and 24 September in a bid to defend its decision to throw a veil of secrecy around the use of drones …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    The worry with drones is that there's no risk, apart from a bit of cash (insignificant from a military budget point of view); which might lead to less thought given to the reason for going out and killing people. When killing people is as easy as firing up the Xbox and there's no personal risk whatsoever (apart from the relatively minor one of a chewing out if you trash one) then the whole process becomes easier and that is quite possibly a dangerous thing. It becomes too easy to disassociate and forget that there's actual people with actual lives (briefly) in the crosshairs.

    I'm worried that it will change the default thinking from "Do we REALLY need to do this" to "Fuck it, why not?"

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  2. Maharg

    Drones are good

    Had this discussion with someone not two days ago, I asked him what he thought what difference it made to a person if they were blown up by someone pressing a button 66 miles away, or 1066 miles away, well, not much they said, so I then asked them if they would prefer that the type of aircraft used to blow people up were able to remain over the target for hours to gather intelligence, feeding video back to a number of people who make the decision to engage or would they rather it be a split second choice made by someone flying extremely fast while possibly being worried about being shot down and killed.

    Needless to say they don’t think drones are that bad anymore.

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    1. Maharg
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      Re: Drones are good - thumbs down

      Its all well and good giving a thumbs down, but can anyone say what exactly they disagree with my post?

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  3. arrbee

    "...harm relations between the UK and another State"

    The other State here would be the USA, and the harm would be revealing their expensive technology is unreliable and inefficient, hence jeopardising future export sales (and exposing UK MoD purchasers to questions they'd prefer not to answer).

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    1. Don Jefe
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      Expensive

      Every single part of the War On Terror is expensive, unreliable and inefficient. The 9/11 Commission Report estimated 'The Terrorists' spent about $500k organizing and carrying out the attacks. That's everything from travel, rent, cost of living, airline tickets, box cutters; everything.

      The US alone has spent $5.4 Trillion in response, has lost everywhere they and their allies have deployed troops and resources, are still suffering terror attacks and cowering deeper in fear every day. Bringing the entire Western world down in the process, even with a $10,000,000 to $1 financial response.

      The technology is not working. It is destroying the economies of the countries that build it as well as those that buy it and causing untold political damage at home for all involved and ill will abroad. The whole thing is a losing investment. It's time for everyone to stop wasting their money and their lives fighting an idea with bullets. It is killing us not 'them'...

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  4. SiGiL
    Joke

    Calm down dear....

    ...these are not the drones you're looking for.

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