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A new jet-powered Shahed kamikaze drone has reportedly been shot down in Ukraine, though the country’s air force has said it could not currently confirm the incident. Serhiy Beskrestnov, a Ukrainian soldier specializing in radio technologies and operating under the callsign “Flash,” reported the discovery on his Telegram channel
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A helicopter was damaged after a collision with a drone on Saturday, the Volusia Sheriff's Office revealed in a subsequent statement. No one was hurt, but the damages to the helicopter blades will be costly. According to the VSO's report on the incident, Leading Edge Helicopter
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A military drone crashed during a test flight on Monday in the northern city of Gorgan, resulting in injuries to two civilians, as reported by the deputy governor of Golestan Province. Debris fell in different parts of the northern city of Gorgon, according to the official IRNA news agency. The
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An Emirates Airbus A380 superjumbo may have been damaged by a large drone as it was coming into land at Nice Côte d’Azur Airport on the French Riviera on Friday after a post-landing inspection revealed damage to a part of the wing that generates more lift while flying at
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A Russian fighter damaged a U.S. drone over Syria earlier this week, the top Air Force commander for the region said July 25, in the latest escalation between American and Russian aircraft. The Russian fighter’s blatant disregard for flight safety detracts from our mission to ensure the enduring
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A military reconnaissance drone that crashed in southwestern Poland late on Tuesday was being used by U.S. soldiers for a training flight, the Polish defence ministry said on Friday. Private radio RMF reported earlier that a drone was found in woods near the village of Trzebien, southern Poland, after
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Drones fell from the sky and plunged into the Yarra River during a light display ahead of Friday night’s Matildas soccer match at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne. More than several hundred drones fell out of formation and flashing as they dropped into the water in Docklands. The drone malfunction
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An investigation into the 2022 crash of a US Air Force (USAF) General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper found that pilot error precipitated the incident. The remotely piloted aircraft crashed at an undisclosed location in Europe on 14 July 2022, with no injuries or fatalities and “minimal damage to civilian property”, according
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During an aerial survey flight, the UAS detected a rapid loss of battery power and initiated an immediate automatic landing. Whilst descending, its flight behaviour became erratic, control was lost to the remote pilot, and the UA struck an uninvolved person before hitting the ground. The UAS was planned to
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Russia shot down an Iranian drone operated by Moscow's own troops in the annexed Crimean peninsula, according to new reports. Sergei Aksyonov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Crimea, said that an "enemy" unmanned aerial vehicle had been jammed in the eastern part of the annexed territory. Aksyonov
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On June 6, at approximately 1:00 p.m., emergency and military personnel responded to the 49900 block of Fresh Pond Neck Road in Scotland for a reported UAS aircraft crash. An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) attached to the Army National Guard that went down outside Webster Field in Scotland,
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A 59-year-old Ukrainian soldier, known by the call sign "Grandfather," has been awarded a medal of bravery for shooting down a Russian exploding drone with his Kalashnikov automatic rifle.He shot down an Russian Shahed and received an honorary award from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of