This week the USAF released an accident investigation report into the crash of a US Predator drone in Afghanistan in April 2012. This crash brings the number of drone crashes in our updated database to 100 (see full database here)… Read More ›
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Drone crashes continue into 2012
While the drone industry regularly boasts about the spectacular rise in the use of unmanned drones (see this report of the latest drone lobby gathering as an example) their silence on the number of drones plummeting back to earth with a bang is… Read More ›
Iran, Djibouti, Afghanistan, China: Drones Simply Keep Crashing
Our Drone Crash Database has been updated with the details of another thirteen drone crashes that have taken place over the past ten months, including the crash (or ‘hijacking’ according to the Iranians) of the US stealth drone in Iran… Read More ›
Drone Crash Database
Over the past couple of months I have regularly ended blog posts by reporting that yet another military drone had crashed. While drones are portrayed by the defence industry and many in the media as the latest ‘invincible’ super-weapon that will make us safe… Read More ›
UK Extends Drone Deal with Israel as Drone Crashes Continue
This week the UK MoD extended its contract to operate Israeli Hermes 450 surveillance drones in Afghanistan by a further eighteen months. The contract extension, with U-TacS , the Leicester-based company jointly owned by Elbit systems and Thales UK is worth $70 million according… Read More ›
Investigation into Drone and Helicopter near miss
The Guardian has revealed that a British Desert Hawk III drone was in a near collision with two military helicopters over Salisbury Plain. The incidents, revealed by safety investigations by the UK Airprox Board, took place on February 12th. According to the Guardian, the… Read More ›
Crash of the Drones
Today’s LA Times has an interesting article about US Predator and Reaper drone crashes compiled from Pentagon accident reports. The article reports that ”thirty-eight Predator and Reaper drones have crashed during combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and nine more during training… Read More ›
Drone goes rogue again
Less than a week after the US government deployed Predator drones over the US-Mexico border the flights have been temporarily halted after a Predator drone ‘went rogue’. According to a US Customs statement to a local Texas paper the drone experienced a “communications loss“. This… Read More ›
