The Ministry of Defense is funding a major combat drone project in Norther Ireland but the significant investment may be more about politics than genuine defense planning.

The Yemeni army, backed by popular committees, has launched a fresh drone attack against the positions of the Saudi-led coalition, whose war on Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has killed thousands of civilians since 2015.

In the latest offensive against migrant crossings across the English Channel the British army has deployed one of its state of the art drones.