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星期四， 2008年8月7日

由 金Sengupta | 政府在英國草擬計劃到用途在伊拉克和阿富汗當前部署的怯弱的「寄生蟲」航空器抵抗恐怖主義和援助警察操作。

 

MoD執行研究與開發使間諜飛機，裝備以高度老練監控儀器給他們秘密地跟蹤，并且相片懷疑，不用他們的知識，部署在三年之內。

計劃由下議院防禦委員會支持，但吸引了批評從公民自由運動家關注平民隱蔽監視的涵義。

無人空中車(UAV)可能得到清楚的圖像，當飛行在50,000ft時。 如果部長給計劃批准英國將是在使用UAVs的第一個國家之中監測它自己的公民。

而美國風俗和邊界保護機構飛行他們在墨西哥邊界查出非法移民沿指定的路線，以色列軍事操作他們巴勒斯坦城市例如Gaza和Ramallah。

Gareth Crossman，政策的主任在民權監視人自由，說： 「問題非常不是關於技術，但是什麼你做與它。 當然我們有相當確定法律關於，在哪裡可以使用CCTV，但與您在私有空間有更加偉大的能力會集材料的UAVs，并且這將帶領有關」。

他補充說： 「如果他們用於簡單地盤旋獲取明顯地是憂慮和一個公民自由問題事情的任意信息然後」。

UAVs在薩利平原當前限於軍事設施由於禁止他們的章程從使用領空和民用飛機一樣。 然而， BAE系統帶領的一個商業財團在三年之內將提供安全措施必要為飛機飛行在英國。

MPs』報告說MoD 「嚴密介入以在國民和北約領空允許UAVs經營規程和章程的發展。 但委員會表明部應該做更多」。

BAE系統財團由一定數量的政府機構部分資助，但不是MoD，在項目有觀察員身份，叫Astraea節目。 The next stage of the project is due to cost £44m, with private companies providing half of that.

The committee says: “In the response to our report we expect the MoD to set out why it supports the Astraea programme only in an ‘observer role’ and its future plans with regard to this programme.”

The MPs say full consideration should be given to evidence given to the committee by a weapons company that meeting the air safety requirements would open the way for UAVs to be used in disaster relief, crowd control, anti-terror surveillance, maritime searches and support for the Coastguard, police, fire and intelligence services.

The UAVs will give law enforcement agencies huge scope for surveillance. Robert Emerson, a security analyst who specialises in deciphering aerial images, said: “Satellite images can be affected by clouds and lack of light, with UAVs you can avoid that by choosing the height at which you fly. There is now also Google Earth, but these are often old images out of date. There is tremendous potential in material gathered by UAVs.”

He added: “There will obviously be implications for privacy, human rights, etc. That is something the Government will have to address and I imagine that there will be protests from some quarters. But you certainly cannot blame police and intelligence services for wanting to use them.”

There are also concerns over safety, however. In April 2006 a UAV used by US Customs and Border Protection crashed in Arizona when its engine was accidentally turned off by the team piloting it. At the end of the first investigation into an un-manned aircraft accident, America’s National Transportation Safety Board issued 22 recommendations and its chairman talked of a “wide range of safety issues involving the civilian use of unmanned aircraft”.

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