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WASHINGTON—Two U.S. senators said on Thursday they had proposed barring the Federal Aviation Administration from buying or using Chinese-made drones.
Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, and Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who chairs the Intelligence Committee, proposed legislation that would also prohibit the FAA from providing federal funds to foreign drone companies from China and several other countries. She said the FAA operates more than a dozen drones that were produced in China.
The prohibitions would also apply to drones made in Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Cuba.
«Taxpayer dollars should never fund drones manufactured in regions that are hostile toward the U.
