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The latest annual fleet airworthiness review, obtained by The Canadian Press under the access-to-information law show that crashes by unmanned aircraft are increasing the number of accident investigations undertaken by the military’s flight-safety branch. “The overall (Canadian Forces) air accident rate — less Cadets and UAS — has
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Since the crash “we’ve kind of been in a strategic pause”
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Israel's ground forces have temporarily grounded their Elbit Systems Skylark 1 ("Sky Rider") unmanned aircraft after a series of mid-air inflations involving the type's airbag landing system. Israel Defense Forces confirms that operations of the mini-unmanned aircraft have been halted until further
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A mystery object, thought to be a military or law enforcement drone, flying in controlled airspace over Denver had a near miss with a commercial jet last week. The pilot of the Cessna jet radioed air traffic controllers to warn them that “A remote controlled aircraft” had flown past his
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An Israel Defence Forces observation airship crashed on May 4, on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. The airship was performing a routine surveillance deployment in the Gaza sector when a civilian crop duster flying by hit its cable. As a consequence of the incident, the balloon crashed whereas
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An unexpected degree of aero-shell degradation was "the most probable cause" of the premature flight termination of DARPA's Hypersonic Technology Vehicle during a flight over the Pacific Ocean last August, according to the findings of the agency's independent engineering review board. Following an
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Iran claimed on Sunday that it had reverse-engineered the RQ-170 captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft's operational
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Contrary to recent reports, the Navy’s unmanned helicopter fleet is not permanently grounded following two unrelated crashes in a week, a service leader said on April 17. Routine flights of the MQ-8B Fire Scout, of which the Navy has 14, are merely suspended while investigations into the crashes
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An International Security Assistance Force rotary-wing unmanned aircraft crashed in northern Afghanistan on April 6. The cause of the crash is currently being assessed, however initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area. The site has been secured and no injuries have been reported as a
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The United States has suspended unmanned aircraft flights over the Seychelles while it investigates a second crash in four months on the archipelago. One of the remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper aircraft crash-landed last week at the main airport on the island of Mahe shortly after taking off on
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After two incidents resulting in crashes, Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout operations are on an 'operational pause' for the indefinite future. One aircraft was damaged on 30 March after landing in the ocean. The second aircraft crashed in Afghanistan on 6 April, according to an International Security
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The first CIA RQ-170 Sentinel mission over Iran took place more than three years ago when the aircraft penetrated more than 600 miles inside the country, captured images of Iran’s secret nuclear facility at Qom and then flew home. Analysts at the CIA and other agencies watched carefully