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Drone

Science

This Armada of Saildrones Could Conquer the Ocean

Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.

Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Business May 2018 15min Permalink

World

Losing Sight

A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.

May Jeong The Intercept Jan 2018 40min Permalink

History Politics Tech

How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War

The making of the drone.

Arthur Holland Michel Wired Dec 2015 20min Permalink

Nothing Says "Sorry Our Drones Hit Your Wedding Party" Like $800,000 and Some Guns

Untangling the aftermath of a United States drone strike in Yemen.

Gregory D. Johnsen Buzzfeed Aug 2014 30min Permalink

Politics

The Killing Machines

A briefing on drone warfare.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min Permalink

Crime World

How a U.S. Citizen Came to Be in America’s Cross Hairs

On the legal and practical details of the drone strikes that killed New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki and later, accidentally, his sixteen-year-old Colorado-born son.

Mark Mazzetti, Charlie Savage, Scott Shane New York Times Mar 2013 15min Permalink

Drone-Ethics Briefing

The transcript from an lecture presented by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture-capital arm, on the ethics of drones, military robots, and cyborg soldiers.

Patrick Lin The Atlantic Dec 2011 20min Permalink

Crime

Rules for Drone Wars

A conversation with NYU Law Professor Philip Alston on the legality of ‘targeted killings’ by drones, which have made headlines in Pakistan, but also have been deployed by the C.I.A. in countries like Yemen.

Scott Horton Harper's Jun 2010 10min Permalink