Unofficial estimates reports that since 2004 the US has launched around 360 drone strikes in Pakistan and around 100 offensives in Yemen.

On March 25th, 2013 Ben Emmerson, the UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights, confirmed that no consent by Pakistan had been given for drone use on national territory and US attacks are considered a manifest breach of customary international law. A growing number of controversial issues are raised, representatives of various governments are critics of the use of Drone of strikes in foreign areas, US are accused of violating other states' sovereignty if their governments do not authorize the US to operate in their territory, and the case of Pakistan is emblematic and caused serious frictions between the states. The adoption of drones for 'targeted killings' is seriously debated. In the last decade the number of drones has increased exponentially, the US Government has more than 8,000 vehicles and new ones have been already ordered to principal manufactures for the next future, the use of UAVs has made possible the surveillance of critical tribal areas of countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Pakistan. The US Government has deployed military installations for the launch of drones in critical areas such as the Strait of Hormuz and on the African territories such as Djibouti, Ethiopia Niger to mitigate possible offensives of extremist groups. They can be deployed to monitor inaccessible areas and could be also used to attack specific targets with high precision thanks to the use of sophisticated pointing devices, all minimizing collateral damages. UAVs are able to infiltrate the territory of adversaries in stealthy mode conducting intelligence-gathering mission. The drones are remotely controlled vehicles considered by principal governments a secure and efficient weapon. Other serious questions are related to their use in the civil sector and privacy issue related to the improper management of data collected by the drone during the missions. These systems are complex environments that theoretically could be hacked becoming a weapon in the hand of attackers. The use of these vehicles raises a series of discussions about their security. Of course, the large diffusion of the vehicles must be sustained by meticulous attention to matters related to the security and privacy of the population. Their use was initially conceived for reconnaissance and surveillance operation, but with each passing month governments, such as the US and Israel, have started to use the drones for offensive purposes, initially against member Al-Qaeda members and affiliates.īy 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) expects to have as many as 30,000 drones flying over the United States.

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