United States Attorney General Eric
Holder's recent admission that the government killed four Americans in
different drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan has brought the debate over the
killing birds back to the fore.
US President Barack Obama on
Thursday defended the use of drones, saying the drones "have saved
lives" by eliminating terrorists, and are a legal part of a "just
war" against terror outfits.
These unmanned drones, used both for
reconnaissance and attack operations across the world, have been lauded by some
as the cornerstone of 21st century
warfare. At the same time the violence it has unleashed has sparked extreme
condemnation in some quarters of the world, especially 'drone victims'
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
We present some recent and archival
Reuters images of unmanned drone being developed across the globe.
In this photograph, an X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft
is seen launching for the first time off an aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W.
Bush, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia.
The U.S. Navy had made aviation
history by catapulting an unmanned jet off an aircraft carrier for the first
time, testing a long-range, stealthy, bat-winged plane that represents a jump
forward in drone technology.
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