Sentences with phrase «in civilian drones»

DJI, the world's leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, Thursday, introduced a new addition to the Phantom family — the Phantom 4 Advanced — offering creators an affordable way to capture aerial imagery...

Not exact matches

In what's being characterized as the closest encounter yet between an unmanned aerial vehicle and a civilian aircraft, an Air France plane last month came within 16 feet of colliding with a drone.

In an email to Valleywag, Forman explained that he's completed a film treatment about the unintended consequences of civilian drones.

Unlike the military drones that are already operating in Mali, the Thales drones will be used to provide aerial surveillance for civilian operations such as humanitarian convoys.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

Obama has ramped up drone attacks in Afghanistan that have not only removed terrorists, but killed civilians.

Maybe, you know, if we weren't fighting wars in Muslim countries, that is to say, invading them, f *** ing up our drone strikes to kill civilians, going on the occasional shooting rampage and body desecration, and supporting Israel.

I'm against the U.S. drone strikes that have resulted in the deaths of civilians.

Furthermore, the statistics of modern warfare show a far worse ratioof civilian to combatant deaths, in spite of all the advances in battlefield technology and bluster about «targeted drone strikes».

Initially, the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) was an exclusively military affair; only in recent times have civilian drone developers started to appear on the scene.

To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced in late January the launch of an investigation into the «civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.

While parts of this logic make sense in the abstract, and do make an attempt to come to grips with the unusual nature of the threat posed by terrorism, the rationale conforms neither to the experience with drone attacks to date (which have incurred heavy civilian casualties) or to the efforts of other countries, such as Israel (more on this below), to respect the imminence restraint.

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said it was «deeply regrettable» that an RAF drone strike aimed at ISIS had resulted in a civilian death.

This summer when a Lake Katrine man was on trial for using a civilian drone outside a Town of Ulster medical building, Ulster County Assistant District Attorney Tom Colonna summed up «drone anxiety» by telling the jury that the machines «put human eyes in a place, like 30 feet in the air outside an exam room window, where human eyes normally wouldn't be.»

The following month government agencies issued terse warnings for civilians to keep their drones far away from low - flying aircraft being used to locate and evacuate Hurricane Harvey victims in Houston.

Stories like this are rare in the US, where laws for the civilian use of drones have yet to be worked out.

Military drones are finding a role in civilian life, with armed cattle - rustlers their first target.

ATTEMPTS to fly drones in civilian airspace are a classic example of an irresistible force (innovation) meeting an immovable object (the law).

While commercial innovators have been champing at the bit to deploy drones in all kinds of civilian roles, aviation law has mostly prevented it.

Proposed changes in the US and Europe mean that uncrewed aircraft of all shapes and sizes could go mainstream in the next couple of years, surveying buildings, fertilising fields, sniffing out pollution and more (see «Civilian drones to fill the skies after law shake - up «-RRB-.

Under FAA regulations, civilian drones in the US are currently permitted to fly only under 400 feet (122 metres).

Interest in tagging technology has been driven in part by growing pressure on the White House over civilian deaths in US drone attacks.

In these simulations, the drone approaches kill zones with civilian structures such as an apartment building, a religious landmark, and a hospital.

Kill focusing on drone operators is something we haven't seen before and it's shocking because you'd expect it to be one of more difficult jobs considering all the reports of civilians and children getting caught in the crossfire.

Gavin Hood)-- World Premiere Academy Award winner Helen Mirren stars alongside Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman and Iain Glen in this timely thriller about a terrorist - targeting drone mission that becomes a flashpoint when a civilian girl enters the kill zone.

Eye in the Sky — This timely tale of drone warfare features a fierce Helen Mirren as a Colonel hellbent on killing her target despite the potential loss of civilian life.

In Pakistan alone, 891 civilians have been killed by U.S. drones since 2004.

This lesson supports student explorations into the ethics of using drones in civilian life and warfare.

For example, when the ability to turn civilian humans into drones is introduced, the way that the drones can be used to distract other humans is covered in detail, but the fact that the drone will eventually be detected and destroyed is not.

Omer Fast's 5000 Feet is the Best (2011), is a film based on interviews with an American Predator drone aerial vehicle operator, who describes incidents where militants and civilians are fired at in Pakistan and Afghanistan — resulting in deep psychological scarring.

The work, titled Civilian Drone Strike, was auctioned alongside contributions by feminist activist group Guerrilla Girls and photomontage artist Peter Kennard, at the five - day Art The Arms Fair held last week in London in protest against the annual Defence and Security Equipment International arms fair.

This includes data visualizations from civilian casualties in the drone war, video documentation from acts of terrorism, tracking the impact of invasive species on local ecosystems and crime scene studies from mass shootings.

In his 2011 film project 5,000 Feet is the Best, Fast explores the experiences of a Predator drone operator firing on militants and civilians, based on accounts both on and off the record.

Trump: states that illegal immigrants are subhuman (untermenschen) and should be treated as such — he also implies that anyone of «coloured skin» is subhuman (heard that word before in recent history); killed more civilians with drone attacks in his first 7 months than Obama did in his whole presidency; along with most of the super rich, thinks that anyone who hasn't prepared for the imminent collapse of civilisation and doesn't have a well stocked underground bunker is stupid and deserves to die; continues to fail @ 1.4 mil Americans who are still without power in Puerto Rico.

In this sharply written book, El Akkad explores asymmetric warfare, climate change, rebellion, extrajudicial torture, refugees, and the ethics of unmanned drones raining death and destruction on innocent civilians.

One excellent example of the use of social media to disseminate research findings is a 165 - page report by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School of Law (NYU Clinic) released this week, Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan.

Civilian drone use is regulated in the UK by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for drones up to a mass of 150 kg, at which point jurisdiction currently shifts to Europe.

SHANGHAI (Reuters)- China on Thursday put into effect new laws requiring civilian drones over a certain size to be registered under real names, in an effort to improve the safety of its skies.

The high casualty rate from the indiscriminate use of drones in civilian areas and use for extrajudicial executions.

The use of armed drones in conflict situations is increasing, causing far too many collateral civilian deaths.