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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
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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
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An International Security Assistance Force remotely piloted aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan yesterday. The crash site is secure and the aircraft is being recovered. The cause of the crash is under investigation, but initial reports indicate there was no insurgent activity in the area at the time. Source: ISAF Joint
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At 7:20 a.m. local time on June 21, a US Navy MQ-8B Fire Scout, which was flying over Libya's central coast, lost contact with a command center and crashed, according to Navy and NATO officials. It is unclear exactly from where the unmanned helicopter was
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A Botswana Defence Force UAS crashed at Thebephatshwa Airbase last week after experiencing technical problems while in flight. Sources have revealed that the machine, which was operated from an office on the ground experienced technical problems and was brought down after several hours in flight circling above the camp. Unconfirmed
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A Shadow unmanned aircraft had an equipment emergency last Wednesday morning, causing its recovery parachute to successfully deploy and eventually bring the aircraft down on private property west of Fort Huachuca, according to the installation’s spokeswoman. There was no environmental damage, no fire and no injuries to anyone on
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An MQ-9 Reaper has crashed on landing at the Holloman Air Force Base in southern New Mexico. Base officials say the unmanned aircraft was on a training mission when it crashed around 9:15 a.m. Saturday. Officials with the base's 49th Wing say the Reaper was