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The three recent unmanned aircraft crashes brings the total of large UAS crashes for 2011 to thirteen, and the total for 2010 & 2011 to thirty-six, according the Drone Crash Database maintained by Drone Wars UK. Drone Wars UK aims to be a source of information on the growing
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An American unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed in south-western Pakistan on Thursday evening, near a paramilitary base close to the Afghan border. "It was an American surveillance unmanned aircraft. It crashed on this side of the border," a security official in the area told AFP. He said that
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Officials with the 49th Wing of the US Air Force announced that a remotely piloted MQ-9 Reaper sustained damage during landing at Holloman Air Force Base at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 24. The aircraft is assigned to the 29th Attack Squadron, which is an unmanned
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A unmanned aircraft of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has come down in southern Afghanistan due to a technical failure, the alliance said on Saturday. "We can confirm that a small ISAF remotely-piloted aircraft did crash in Ghazni as a result of a mechanical issue," the
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Security officials in Somalia say that a UAS crashed into a house near the Libyan Embassy in the capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, but they did not provide details about who was operating the unmanned aircraft. The site is located in the city's south-western Hodan district. Authorities, who
Military
A ground-based sense-and-avoid system being prototyped by the U.S. Army would have prevented the mid-air collision of a C-130 Hercules airlifter with RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aircraft at a forward operation base in eastern Afghanistan on August 15, a service official says. “Had we
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US Air Force Captain Justin Brockhoff, a spokesman for the military in Afghanistan, confirmed that a C-130 cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing Monday at a forward operating base in eastern Afghanistan after colliding with an RQ-7 Shadow, an unmanned aircraft that is usually operated
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Engineers and scientists monitoring the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, which was designed to fly at 20 times the speed of sound, lost contact with the vehicle midway through a scheduled 30-minute flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Source: LA Times
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A US Navy unmanned aircraft that disappeared along the coast in central Libya in June was probably shot down by Colonel Gadhafi's forces, a U.S. military investigation has concluded. According to Lieutenant Commander Mark Walton - a spokesman for the U.S. Navy's 6th Fleet - the
Lighter Than Air
An unmanned, remote controlled airship, launched from Akron, Ohio, crash landed Wednesday morning, just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The High Altitude Long Endurance-Demonstrator, also known as HALE-D, was designed by Lockheed Martin, based out of Akron. It launched just before 6:00 a.m. at the air dock
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The Iranian Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) claims to have shot down an American unmanned aircraft over the nuclear enrichment site of Fordo near the city of Qom. Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari, a member of the National Security Commission of the Iranian Parliament told the local reporters that the air defence
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A Pakistani Navy unmanned aircraft crashed near an oil refinery, after hitting a bird in the country’s largest city of Karachi on Tuesday. It fell near an oil refinery and there was no (other) damage,” Commodore Irfan Ul Haq, spokesman for the Pakistan Navy told AFP in Islamabad. Fellow