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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
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News is just leaking out that on August 22, a Chinese secret unmanned aircraft crashed in Hebei Province, North China. The local police force blockaded the crash zone, but some local villagers took this photo before the arrival of law-enforcement personnel. The accurate crash position is in the hill area
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Local fighters say that they have shot down a suspected United States operated unmanned aircraft in the south of Somalia near the capital, Mogadishu. Al-Shabaab fighters say that the aircraft crashed into the sea after it was hit near the lower Shabelle region in Merka town, located south of the
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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 use
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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 it
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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 aircraft
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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 ISAF