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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
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A Russian surface-to-air missile came close to striking an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over Syria in November, passing and detonating within 40 feet and damaging the aircraft, according to new details disclosed by a U.S. official to Air & Space Forces Magazine. The U.S. had already revealed the
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An unmanned aerial vehicle with an American engine crashed near Noginsk near Moscow, a spokesman for emergency services told RIA Novosti. "An unmanned aerial vehicle weighing about 100 kilograms was found on the outskirts of the Bogorodsky urban district near a garden partnership," the source said. When falling,
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A small Israeli military drone crashed in Syrian territory on April 19, the Israel Defense Forces says. The drone, a Skylark model, was on a reconnaissance mission when it fell out of the sky due to a technical fault, according to the military. There is no fear of information leaking
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An unknown unmanned aerial vehicle fell on the territory of the airport in Belgorod, a representative of emergency services told RIA Novosti. "In the afternoon, a drone crashed, the airport fence was slightly damaged," he said. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. The circumstances of the
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One of Bell’s Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) cargo drones crashed on March 14 in a field near Mineral Wells, Texas, in what is being categorized as a “loss of control” accident by the FAA. The APT 70 experimental aircraft, with registration number N314AL, first flew in 2019. The aircraft
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A crashed drone without identification marks was found in Russia’s Tula Oblast between the settlements of Petrovskoye and Malovel on March 19, the Tula regional security committee reported on March 19. The regional authorities said the UAV “without identification marks and departmental affiliation” was found in a field, far
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The Pentagon released video of a March 14 incident involving a Russian Su-27 fighter and a U.S. Air Force MQ-9, which resulted in the American plane crashing into the Black Sea. The MQ-9 was conducting a surveillance mission when two Su-27 Flankers intercepted it. The Su-27s harassed the U.
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A U.S military MQ-9 surveillance drone crashed into the Black Sea on Tuesday after being intercepted by Russian fighter jets, in the first such incident since Russia's invasion of Ukraine over a year ago. The Pentagon said that one of the Russian Su-27 jets struck the propeller