Cameron made the statement in a post on Twitter on Sunday, adding his government would also increase funding to special forces units to "combat the terrorist threat".
In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, the prime minister said the country will stengthen its current fleet of 10 Reaper drones to 20.
The unmanned planes will be used to target members of ISIL, including British citizen Mohammed Emwazi, also known as 'Jihadi John', Cameron said.
Emwazi carried out a series of murders on camera on behalf of the group, beheading two fellow British nationals, aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, as well as three US citizens, and two Japanese men.
Cameron also announced hundreds of millions of dollars worth of support for UK special forces units.
"One of the biggest threats we have to respond to is that terrorist threat and that means a lot of things in terms of obviously domestic security and our intelligence services but it also means making sure that we have the military equipment and resources we need," Cameron told the newspaper.
Last month the UK announced it had killed two British ISIL members in a drone strike in Syria, the first such strike the government has acknowledged...............http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/uk-pm-cameron-doubles-drone-fleet-fight-isil-151004143137158.html
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