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The Indian Air Force located the site of the MiG-29 aircraft that crashed in Lahaul and Spiti valley area a week ago. The site was located by aerial search and imageries received from the remotely piloted aircraft conducting photo reconnaissance of the area. Till Wednesday, the IAF flew 149 sorties
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Colonel Aden Dheere, a Somali military official, told Iran’s Press TV that the remote-controlled aircraft went down on the outskirts of Dhoobley town on Wednesday morning.Dhoobley is situated 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Kenyan border and about 500 kilometers (312 miles) southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
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A Somali military official told Iran's Press TV that two US operated unmanned aircraft went down in close proximity to Bilis Qooqaani town, which is located 448 kilometers (278 miles) southwest of Mogadishu, late on Saturday. He added that he heard massive explosions after the aircraft crashed and
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Officials with the 49th Wing announced a remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper crashed on final approach at Holloman Air Force Base at approximately 6:45 p.m. October 7th.The aircraft is assigned to the 29th Attack Squadron, which is a remotely piloted aircraft flying training unit. The accident occurred at
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An American surveillance UAS apparently has crashed in the Somali port town of Kismayo, about 500 kilometers south of Mogadishu,which is controlled by the militant group al-Shabab.Witnesses in Kismayo said that the unmanned aircraft crashed on Sunday near the airport of the southern Somali city. An al-Shabab website
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Folks at two beaches in Wilmington, North Carolina, had quite a surprise one morning. They found what appear to be military target gliders on the beach. Jerry and Barbara Kennedy in Oak Island sent in two photos of the plane they ran across on the strand, which is larger than
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Two NATO unmanned aircraft have crashed in eastern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, ISAF's Regional Command-East confirmed in a statement this morning. "Two unmanned aircraft crashed in the Pul-E-Alam District of Logar Province and the Behsud District of Nangarhar Province because of mechanical problems. Both UAS
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This video showed up on YouTube last week. It shows the ultimate fate of the Vega Stork – the Russian version of the Predator. The Vega reportedly crashed on takeoff during a demonstration flight on18 January 2010. Source: YouTube
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A Predator came down on Sunday in Zangarha village in South Waziristan, near the Taliban and al-Qaeda hideouts in the rocky region bordering Afghanistan. A military intelligence official based in the nearest city, Wana, said that the aircraft suffered a mechanical failure. The Pakistani Taliban, a domestic offshoot of the
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Nagorno-Karabakh, a region that broke away from Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, said it shot down an unmanned Azeri drone over its territory on September 12.The Karabakh Defense Army said in a statement that the aircraft was downed in Karabakh's eastern Martuni
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A new discovery Thursday linked an unmanned Azeri aircraft downed this week by Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army to a US Defence company that manufactures signal distribution products. This raises new questions about potential violations of U.S. arms export laws. Saying that Azeri Air Force activity has “visibly increased” along
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The crash occurred at 9.20 am on Tuesday morning. Due to an engine problem on takeoff, the aircraft failed to gain height, according to Jürg Nussbaum, chief of Air Force communications. As a result, when the aircraft was over safe ground the parachute was activated. However, as the aircraft