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Pictures of the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator shot down in Turkey were released by the Kurdish Firat News Agency on September 19. The aircraft was shot down by the Kurd rebels on Sept. 18, during an operation against the rebel bastion of Uludere, in the
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In August 2011, photos emerged of a bird-like unmanned aircraft that went down because of a technical fault just inside Pakistani territory in Chaman town, in insurgency-hit Baluchistan province. An official from Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps in Quetta, Baluchistan province's main town, confirmed the incident. "
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The reaction of the Launch and Recovery Element (LRE) mishap pilot to a dual alternator failure began a chain of events that led to the crash of an MQ-1B Predator Feb. 14, 2012, in Afghanistan, according to an Air Combat Command Abbreviated Accident Investigation Board report just released. According to
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Irreversible engine failure caused the crash of an MQ-1B Predator April 14, 2012, into an unpopulated mountainside in Afghanistan, according to an Air Combat Command Abbreviated Accident Investigation Board report released on Tuesday.The mishap crew was assigned to the 162nd Reconnaissance Squadron, Springfield Air National Guard Base, Ohio. When
Military
According to the information being spread by Chinese Defense forums, a group of 17 Chinese expert would have recently arrived in Iran not only to inspect, but also to collect and bring back to China some key components of the U.S. RQ-170 captured by Iran in December 2011. Indeed,
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An experimental X-51A Waverider hypersonic aircraft, designed to fly six times the speed of sound, broke apart over the Pacific Ocean seconds into a military test flight after a control fin malfunctioned during a test shot off the California coast the U.S. Air Force said on Wednesday. The problem
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The Israel Air Force's most advanced unmanned aircraft, the Heron TP, known as the Eitan, is back in the air after being grounded for over seven months. The extraordinary decision to ground all Eitan UAS was taken after one crashed in late January during a test fight of
VTOL
The US Navy has detailed causes of two crashes of the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout that led to an 'operational pause' in flights of the aircraft. Both crashes occurred independently of one another and involved different systems of the rotary-wing, vertical takeoff unmanned air vehicle (VTUAV). The
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A happy celebration video shoot of a La Vegas wedding turned horribly wrong when the Parrot AR Drone filming the event crashed into the world-renowned "Welcome To Las Vegas" sign.Luckily for the hapless pilot, the Clark County Fire Brigade came to the rescue and were then rewarded
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A U.S. Navy Global Hawk flying out of Patuxent River Naval Air Station crashed on Monday after operators lost contact with the aircraft. The BAMS-D (Broad Area Maritime Surveillance), an unmanned demonstrator aircraft that’s still in development, went down in a swampy area of nearby Bloodworth Island on
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A delayed recovery caused a tethered aerostat radar system (TARS) to break away and crash during high winds Feb. 14 in Marfa, Texas, according to an accident investigation board report released by Air Combat Command May 29, 2012. The aerostat was assigned to and operated by ACC at the Marfa
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A Dutch artist has turned his dead cat Orville, named after the famous aviator Orville Wright, into a helicopter – dubbed the Orvillecopter. After the cat was killed by a car, and followed by a period of mourning, visual artist Bart Jansen had Orville stuffed before enlisting the help of radio