stealth combat drone

unmanned combat air vehicle [ UCAV | unmanned combat aerial vehicle | uninhabited combat aerial vehicle | uninhabited combat air vehicle | combat drone ]

unmanned combat armed rotocraft

uninhabited combat air vehicle | Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle | UCAV [Abbr.]

D. whereas, according to the UN report on targeted killings, combat drone operations ‘necessarily lead to indiscriminate killings of civilians’; whereas, according to the Long War Journal, Pakistan Body Count and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, between 2 412 and 3 701 people have been killed in combat drone operations in Pakistan since 2004, among them 154 to 2 512 civilians (416 to 951 according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism); whereas US combat drone strikes have been reported in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Somalia and Uganda;

2. Urges the Council and the Member States to categorically prohibit drone operations for the purpose of targeted killings, to prevent and reject any extrajudicial executions and to advocate the international prohibition of combat drones;

A. whereas the use of combat drones for targeted killings has increased substantially in the past decade;

83. Recalls that the war in Libya has also highlighted the lack of reconnaissance drones in the European armed forces and notes that in Europe there are currently two rival MALE (Medium Altitude Long Endurance) drone projects; notes also Franco-British cooperation over UCAVs (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles), which would benefit from not being exclusive, but open to other European partners;