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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 for
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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 Seychelles Civil
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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 meant that
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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 caused electrical damage
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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 drone
Military
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
Commercial
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 on
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Afghans Inspect Damaged House After CrashA military headquarters in Afghanistan has confirmed that a Northrop Grumman EQ-4B Global Hawk crashed in the south-east city of Jalalabad on 21 August 2011 in a still unexplained mishap. The EQ-4 is an RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 20 modified to carry the Battlefield Airborne
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Witnesses say that an unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed into a refugee camp in the Somali capital of Mogadishu last week. Refugees and soldiers in Mogadishu’s Badbado camp say they watched the aircraft crash on Friday into a hut made of sticks, corrugated cans and plastic bags. Sacdiyo Sheikh Madar,
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An Eitan-type (Heron TP) unmanned aircraft crashed near Moshav Yesodot in Israel on Sunday. No injuries were reported. An initial investigation suggests that the aircraft exceeded its flight restrictions apparently due to a human error. The damage is currently estimated at nearly $ 5 million. The crash occurred during a joint
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Officials with the 49th Wing announced a remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper performed an emergency landing on January 23rd. at approximately 9:45 p.m. just south of the base near Alamogordo. The aircraft is assigned to the 29th Attack Squadron, which is a remotely piloted aircraft flying training unit. The