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A day after the announcement of the downing of a RQ-170 in Iran, the Public Intelligence website received an FOUO report entitled "Operating Next-Generation Remotely Piloted Aircraft for Irregular Warfare" published in April 2011 by the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. One of the many issues that
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Iran guided the CIA's "lost" RQ-170 to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone's systems inside Iran. Iranian electronic warfare specialists were able to
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Iran has rejected a US call for the return of an unmanned surveillance aircraft captured by Iran's military earlier this month. The unmanned aircraft was now "property" of Iran and it was up to Iran to decide what to do with it, Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi
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A US unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed on Tuesday at Seychelles international airport on the main island of Mahe, the US embassy said. At approximately 10.13 hours, a US remote-piloted MQ-9 aircraft took off from Seychelles International Airport on a routine patrol. Minutes into the flight, the tower was informed
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Photo: David Cenciotto The US Government is asking Iran to return the Lockheed Martin-built RQ-170 Sentinel that was recently downed over that country. “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” President Obama said Monday during a news conference at the White House with Iraqi
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A former senior Pentagon official with extensive knowledge of unmanned aircraft expressed great scepticism of the aircraft supposed to be a stealth RQ-170 shown on Iranian television. AOL Defense asked one of Washington's most experienced UAS experts to have a look at the Iranian TV footage. The so-called
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Iran has released video of the unmanned Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel that apparently crash-landed inside Iran. A short video, released by Iranian news agency Nasim Online, shows what appears to be an immobile but undamaged RQ-170. Though Iranian officials claim to have forced the aircraft down through electronic warfare, anonymous
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US officials considered a covert raid to either destroy or recover the wreckage of a stealth RQ-170 unmanned aircraft that crashed in the rugged terrain of Eastern Iran last week, but decided that a military operation of that nature might spark a declaration of war from that country’s leadership.
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The unmanned surveillance aircraft lost by the United States in Iran was indeed a stealth aircraft being used for secret missions by the CIA, US officials admitted on Monday. US officials told NBC that CIA operators were flying the unmanned aircraft when it suddenly veered out of control and headed
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A US official said that Washington had no indication that an unmanned aircraft that had crashed in Iran had actually been shot down. In Tehran, state television quoted a military source as saying that Iran's military had shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran. "
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Two US unmanned aircraft have crashed separately in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya, according to Iran's Press TV.One went down on the outskirts of Dhoobley town, situated 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Kenyan border and about 500 kilometers (312 miles) southwest of the Somali
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An unmanned aircraft once hailed by police as the future of crime-fighting has been declared 'lost at sea' after crashing in to the River Mersey. And police chiefs have decided to abandon the use of the technology - as they can no longer afford to replace it. The