According to a recent report from the Washington Post, the US military has been forced to relocate its (at least) two combat air patrol of drones based at Djibouti’s Camp Lemmonier to nearby Chabelley airfield, a location approximately 5 miles to the southwest. The Air Force stopped flying drones earlier this month after a series […]
I’ve been seeing references like that everywhere over the weekend. Only one problem, I wasn’t aware that anything had changed. Picking one at random, Elias Groll over at Foreign Policy penned a piece titled “The Sudden and Unexpected Return of the Drone War.” With journalistic flair, he hits all the salient points from the past […]
Video and additional photography confirm the latest reports of a P-3 Orion flying over Sanaa, not a remotely piloted drone. A video uploaded on 05AUG13 on Youtube shows a US P-3 surveillance aircraft, from AFRICOM’s HQ in Djibouti, reportedly flying over Yemen’s Sanaa, just hours after a drone strike killed four Al-Qaeda suspects. Although the […]
