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 navy spokesman Commander Salman Ali told AFP that there were no casualties and that the aircraft had been on a surveillance flight when a bird accidentally flew into it and it came down in the Karachi suburbs.
Pakistan is developing its own UAS technology for surveillance and reconnaissance missions because the United States, which is running a bombing campaign with UAS in the country’s northwest, refuses to give Pakistan the technology.
Two companies in Islamabad, Satuma and East West Infiniti, make drones for the Pakistani military. It is not known if the crashed UAS belonged to either company.
Source: Dawn.com