The Missile Technology and Control Regime (MTCR) was originally formed by the G-7 industrialised countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 1987 cutting-edge cellular telephony was a brick-sized telephone. The internet was in its infancy as a Pentagon project. The countries that created the MTCR in 1987 did not foresee the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As modern UAV technology developed rapidly, the MTCR guidelines have created national security challenges, some believe, to the US and its allies. Rules originally designed to prevent the proliferation of ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) technologies are being applied to UAVs that have many commercial and military functions beyond delivering a warhead.
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