RAF has fired missiles in Afghanistan using US drones, MoD reveals: "The MoD insists that British drone pilots always operate under UK rules of engagement, whatever asset they are flying.
However, campaigners have called for increased scrutiny over the use of the aircraft and condemned a lack of transparency about the programmes run by the American and British armed forces.
British crews piloted US Reaper and Predator drones in Afghanistan on 2,150 occasions between 2006 and 2012 – an average of almost once a day.
That does not include the thousands of missions British forces have flown with their own fleet of 10 Reaper aircraft.
The MoD has also for the first time provided a breakdown of the number of missiles fired by UK drones every month between May 2008 and April 2013."
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