Extract from Commons ten minute rule bill on Arms (Exports and Remote Warfare) - Dec 16
Thursday, 17 December 2020 08:50
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Alyn Smith (Stirling) (SNP):...Drones—new technology that is
evolving very fast—have changed warfare already. We saw in the last
few weeks in Nagorno-Karabakh that the deployment of drone
technology was pivotal in the outcome of that conflict and in the
suffering of many, many civilians. UK Government policy on drones
is opaque and effectively incompatible with democratic oversight.
It is also put to shame—there are other countries doing this
better—by the US and Israel who have much...Request free trial
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