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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
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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
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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.
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Doubts that Iran managed to bring down an advanced American UAS last month using an advanced GPS spoofing attack have been raised by experts, who say that attacks of this type would be extremely tough to pull off. RQ-170 Sentinel stealth capabilities should have prevented the Iranians from spotting
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The unmanned aircraft had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. The oil temperature in the plane’s turbocharger, they noticed, had risen into the "cautionary" range. An hour later, it was worse, and it just kept
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A US official says Iran will find it hard to exploit any data and technology aboard the captured CIA stealth drone because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory. The official also said Saturday that despite Iran's latest claims to have
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Take everything that Iran says about its captured US drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn’t implausible. It’s possible to spoof unencrypted civilian GPS systems. But military GPS receivers, such as the one likely installed on
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Iran plans to put foreign UAS it has in its possession on display in the near future, according to an informed source close to the Tehran Times. National reporters and foreign ambassadors based in Tehran will be allowed to visit the exhibition. The latest domestically manufactured electronic warfare equipment will
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Last week a three-foot model airplane crashed into a federal building in Waltham, Massachusetts. Federal investigators from DHS and the FBI promptly began investigating the incident, but so far no evidence exists to suggest any foul play. Special Agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the FBI, said, “The Department
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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
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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