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Drone technology, both civil & military, under proper legal regulation, can continue to deliver ‘significant benefits’ for the UK’s national security policy & economy in the coming decades. That is the conclusion of a new University of Birmingham Policy Commission report (The Security Impact of Drones: Challenges and Opportunities for the UK).  But the Government, and especially the Ministry of Defence, should do more to reach out to the public over what the Commission sees as the globally inevitable use of drones in armed conflict and in domestic surveillance.

• 'Make the case for drones as a key part of an integrated UK security policy', urge leading practitioners & academics