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An 18-month-old boy has lost an eye after being hit by a drone flown by a family friend. Oscar Webb's eye was sliced in half by a propeller after the operator, Simon Evans, lost control of the drone. The toddler, from Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, will need several operations before
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An armed U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed in a remote area near Bagram Air Field last Tuesday night, military officials have revealed. The $14 million remotely piloted aircraft went down at about 7:10 p.m., according to an Air Force statement issued Wednesday. “There is no
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A close call between a hobby drone and a Chinese jet fighter was captured by the drone's camera. The encounter occurred over an unspecified city in China. The fighter, which appears to be a Shenyang J-8 "Finback" , does not seem to notice the hovering quadcopter drone
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A US Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored X-56A unmanned air vehicle crashed Nov. 19 at approximately 9:30 Pacific Daylight Time on Rogers Dry Lakebed test range at Edwards AFB, California. The mishap occurred shortly after takeoff. Initial estimates report severe damage to the vehicle. There are no reports of injuries
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[video width="640" height="360" mp4="https://www.uasvision.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unidentified-warplane-has-reportedly-fallen-near-Turkey-s-Syrian-border-1.mp4"][/video] Turkish fighter jets have shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, with conflicting claims over whether the downed aircraft violated Turkish airspace. The two pilots
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An unmanned Army surveillance blimp broke loose from its mooring in Maryland and floated over Pennsylvania for hours Wednesday with two fighter jets on its tail, triggering blackouts across the countryside as it dragged its tether across power lines. The bulbous, 240-foot helium-filled blimp eventually came down in at least
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Oct. 19 that a drone shot down by the Turkish air force on Oct. 16 was made in Russia, the online newspaper Vzglyad reports. "The downed drone is Russian-made," Davutoglu told the A Haber television channel. "But Russia has told
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An engine turbocharger failure led to the crash of an MQ-1B Predator remote aircraft May 1, 2015, according to an Air Combat Command abbreviated accident investigation board report just released. The aircraft was assigned to the 11th Reconnaissance Squadron, 432nd Wing, Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. At the time of
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Turkey said its warplanes shot down a drone Friday near its border with Syria, underscoring heightened hostility in the region's increasingly crowded airspace. The aircraft was warned three times to turn back before being fired on by Turkish jets patrolling the border, the Turkish military said in a
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Fort Carson soldiers who crash-landed a drone in a Colorado Springs neighbourhood in May will get remedial training after an investigation found they didn't have proper clearance to fly the small RQ-11 Raven aircraft and failed to tell key leaders at the post that the drone had been
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Authorities in New Zealand have started investigations into how a drone came close to hitting an Air New Zealand airliner above Christchurch city, the media reported on Saturday. CAA director Graeme Harris said; "We appreciate that NZALPA has a view, but it totally ignores the activity that is taking
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Four aircraft have been involved in potentially fatal near-misses with drones close to major British airports in the past month, The Times has learnt. Ministers are considering taking action against the use of unmanned aircraft after a surge in the number of drones being flown only a few metres from