The issue focused on the civilian use of unmanned aircraft systems in military operations.


The military has been using unmanned aircraft systems in many different ways since the early 2000s when the Taliban bombed airfields and other targets in Afghanistan.


The United States and allied troops are focused on being able to take out remote-controlled aircraft at ground level. But the Pentagon also has been developing smaller unmanned aircraft systems that can fly to high-altitude sites such as airfields and deliver weapons, such as rockets