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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
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A US MQ-9 Reaper crash-landed at the Seychelles main airport and careered into the ocean on Wednesday. It was the second remotely piloted aircraft to crash on the Indian Ocean archipelago in four months. The accident happened at approximately 14.40 hours on April 4 Seychelles time. The
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Defense Tech just published some new photos of that C-130H that collided with an RQ-7 Shadow over Afghanistan last year. According to their source, the aircraft lost all fuel out of the left wing — something you’d expect when a giant hole is punched in the wing. This
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In-flight electrical failure caused a Northrop Grumman EQ-4 to crash in Afghanistan on 20 August 2011, says a newly-released accident investigation report. The aircraft crashed approximately 105 nm (195 km) northwest of Kandahar. Specifically, an electrical connector to an unidentified line replacement unit (LRU) partially separated. This
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An unmanned helicopter has crashed during a Police test flight near Houston. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, north of Houston, became one of the first police departments in the USA to begin flying Unmanned Aircraft for police missions in October 2011. County officials and the maker of that
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An American unmanned aircraft crashed in north-west Pakistan's tribal district near the Afghan border late Saturday, officials said. The aircraft came down in the mountainous Machikhel area about 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan region, which is frequently targeted by
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An Indian Navy unmanned aircraft crashed into a hill at Ganesh Nagar, Vizag, near Gajuwaka RTC depot on Thursday afternoon with residents in the area that is close to Eastern Naval Command (ENC) grateful that a major tragedy had been averted. Several factories, like HPCL, Coromandel and Zinc are located
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A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation on Sunday, February 12. Steve Hindi, president of SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness), said his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter to video what he called a live pigeon shoot