UAS VISION
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Military officials say an unmanned aircraft crashed near a central Pennsylvania school and a hotel. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs spokeswoman Joan Nissley said no one was injured when the RQ-7 Shadow crashed in Lebanon County around 3:30 p.m. Thursday and was run over by a civilian vehicle. Continue reading
South Korea has concluded that two UAS equipped with digital cameras that crashed in different locations in the past 10 days were North Korean. The Blue House said yesterday it is attempting to come up with measures to better detect small UAS, including the introduction of a radar designed to detect craft flying at low altitudes. Continue reading
A failed power converter in an MQ-1B Predator’s onboard control module led to the crash of the aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea, Sept. 17, 2013, according to an Air Combat Command Abbreviated Accident Investigation Board report released on Wednesday. Continue reading
South Korea has tentatively concluded that two unidentified UAS recently found near the border with North Korea are from the communist nation, officials said, a finding that raises questions about Seoul’s air defence amid heightened military tensions in the region. Continue reading
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating an incident which happened at around a thousand feet as a Bell 412 Hunter Rescue helicopter retuned to its Newcastle base on Saturday night. Continue reading
Late last year a Sensefly eBee 178 UAS was carrying out aerial surveying work over Iluka’s Echo mineral sands mines when it had a near collision incident with a crop duster.
An unmanned aircraft of the sort Israel uses for surveillance and missile strikes in Gaza crashed in the south of the territory early on Tuesday, sources on both sides said. Continue reading
According to Israel’s Homeland Security, the German Army has reported a record attrition rate of UAS in the last decade. Continue reading