Nearly 4,500 Army personnel are being made redundant in the third wave of job cuts since the 2010 defence review.
Military robots have been used in war in some primitive form since the beginning of the 20th century. Only recently they have moved from a marginal role to the centre stage of contemporary military and intelligence operations.
The North Korean government announced yesterday via its Korean Central News Agency that it is placing its “strategic rocket units and long-range artillery units” on their highest alert status.
The EU is providing generous R&D (research and development) subsidies to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the state-owned manufacturer of Israeli ‘drones’ and other ‘battlefield solutions’. Some of the grants are for IAI to adapt its killer robots for use within the EU.
As Britain looks to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014 it still cannot hand over the remaining prisoners to Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security due to a “real risk of serious mistreatment” in their custody.