DRONE STRIKES 1 World – Opinions Daily Notable
By Our Editorial Desk, Raja Furqan Ahmed
A drone attack or strikes is an unmanned combat aerial vehicle that fires a missile at a target. The word drone was first time used in 1946 but this technology in a few years made the term more common.
The drone is mostly used in that situation in which fighting is difficult or too risky. The drones can be an automatic or remote drone. Drones can fly for a long period of time and it plays a key role in different aspects of aviation.
WW1 saw the first real introduction of aircraft, the British army used aerial imagery to capture maps and location. Toward the end of the war, the US army was working on drones. Early-stage of World War 2 United States produces first remote control aircraft.
Experiment Of US Military
The U.S. military had experimented with pilotless aeroplanes as “aerial torpedoes” or flying bombs as far back as the First World War, but with no great success until the Vietnam War, when jet-propelled, camera-equipped drones built by Teledyne-Ryan were launched and controlled from US.
Moreover Air Force C-130s on. Israel was the first country which developed military drone technology after the Arab Israel war in 1973. This technology makes its progress and becomes one of the most important and famous inventions of that century.
The CIA had flying unarmed drones over Afghanistan since 2000. It began to fly armed drones after the September 11 attacks. Some used during the air war against the Taliban in late 2001.
But by February 2002 the CIA hadn’t yet used a drone for a strike outside military support. On Nov 14, 2001, five weeks into America’s war against al-Qaida, a small, unmanned, remote-controlled aeroplane called a Predator took off from a U.S. airbase in Uzbekistan, crossed the border into Afghanistan and with a video camera attached to its belly started tracking a convoy of vehicles believed to carrying jihadi leaders along a road in Kabul.
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Experts Group At CIA Headquarters
A group of officers and spies, monitoring the streamed footage from inside a trailer in a parking lot at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, watched the convoy stop outside a building. With the push of a button, the Predator fired a Hellfire missile at the building, the back half of which exploded.
Seven people, survivors of the blast, seen fleeing to another nearby structure. A second Hellfire destroyed that shelter, too. Among the dead Mohammed Atef, al-Qaida’s military chief and Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law.
Five weeks earlier, on Oct 7 a drone strike had launched against another caravan, this one carrying the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, but the missile missed doubts about this newfangled technology remained.
The era of the armed drone the weapon that has since come to define American-style warfare in the 21st century had unambiguously begun.
First Drone attack in Pakistan was on 18 June 2004. The first known US drone strike killed 5–8 people including Nek Muhammad Wazir. And two children, in a strike near Wana, South Waziristan.
Pakistan’s Army initially claimed the attack as its own work. Some notable drone strikes in Pakistan are Damadola airstrike, Datta Khel airstrike, 2009 Makin airstrike and Miramshah airstrike.
Central Intelligence Agency
On 13 January 2006, the Central Intelligence Agency fired missiles into the Pakistani village of Damadola in the Bajaur tribal area, about seven kilometres (4.5 miles) from the Afghan border, killing at least 18 people. Originally the Bajaur tribal area government claimed that at least four foreign members of al-Qaeda were among the dead.
The United States and Pakistani officials later admitted that no al-Qaeda leaders perished in the strike and that only local villagers killed.
The Datta Khel airstrike an American airstrike carried out on 17 March 2011 in Datta Khel. Moreover, North Waziristan that killed 44 people and led to widespread condemnation in Pakistan. Sherabat Khan Wazir, a top commander of Hafiz Gul Bahadur’s Taliban faction, killed in the strike, and in response, Bahadur threatened to end the peace deal struck with the Pakistani government almost four years earlier.
23 June 2009 Makin airstrike an attack launched by United States drones. On a funeral procession in the city of Makin in South Waziristan, Pakistan. The Miramshah airstrike took place on Friday 12 September 2008 in Miramshah in North Waziristan in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan.
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Excellent work
Thanks, alot maám… part 2 will publish soon in which I discuss about the famous drone attacks in Pakistan so stay tunned.
In this article, discuss the drone attacks, history and how this technology makes its progress and becomes one of the most important and famous inventions of that century… Part 2 will publish soon so stay tuned.
On Nov 14, 2001, five weeks into America’s war against al-Qaida, a small, unmanned, remote-controlled aeroplane called a Predator took off from a US airbase in Uzbekistan, crossed the border into Afghanistan and with a video camera attached to its belly started tracking a convoy of vehicles believed to carrying jihadi leaders along a road in Kabul. With the push of a button, the Predator fired a Hellfire missile at the building, the back half of which exploded. Seven people, survivors of the blast, seen fleeing to another nearby structure. A second Hellfire destroyed that shelter, too. Among the dead Mohammed Atef, al-Qaida’s military chief and Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law.
Five weeks earlier, on Oct 7 a drone strike had launched against another caravan, this one carrying the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, but the missile missed doubts about this newfangled technology remained.
Israel was the first country which developed military drone technology after the Arab Israel war in 1973. This technology makes its progress and becomes one of the most important and famous inventions of that century.
very informative piece of writing, waiting for part 2
Thanks for your concern. Sure when publish I will share the link