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Putin’s Helicopter Supposedly Survives Ukrainian Drone Attack

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Vladimir Putin’s helicopter was forced to shoot down drones while he was aboard, a Moscow official said on Sunday. The Russian president’s aircraft was involved in an “air defence battle” after an “unprecedented Ukrainian drone assault”, Maj Gen Yuri Dashkin, an air defence commander, told state television. The incident was said to have happened last […]

Amazon Removed Backup Landing Sensors Prior to Drone Crashes

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On a (lightly) rainy December day at the company’s testing range in Oregon, not one but two Prime Air drones suddenly stopped spinning their propellers mid-flight and plummeted some 200 feet to the ground. The crashes, which destroyed both aircraft, happened within minutes of each other. According to documents from the National Transportation Safety Board, […]

Shield AI’s V-BAT Proves Resilience to EW at US Army Combat Test

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– Shield AI’s V-BAT successfully participated in Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PC-C5), a Combined, Joint, and multinational experiment held at Fort Irwin, California, in March 2025. V-BAT operated as part of the 82nd Airborne Division’s missions in “The Box,” Fort Irwin’s famously demanding training area in the Mojave Desert. V-BAT excelled against active jammers, successfully […]

Unexpected Gust of Wind Caused Drone-Helicopter Crash in South Korea

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The cause behind a Heron reconnaissance drone crashing into a helicopter in South Korea last month was determined to be “a gust of wind,” military officials announced. The South Korean Army’s Central Accident Investigation Committee reviewed flight recordings, CCTV footage and other data and found that the Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) experienced an unexpected […]

​Heron Destroys $14m Parked South Korean Surion Helicopter on Landing

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A South Korean army helicopter was destroyed when an unmanned air vehicle crashed into it while attempting to land. The accident occurred on 17 March at an army base in Yangju, when the Israel Aerospace Industries Heron UAV crashed into a Korea Aerospace Industries KUH-1 Surion utility helicopter. According to the Army Ground Operations Command, […]

Bayraktar Akıncı Drone Crashes in Libya

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A Turkish-made Bayraktar Akıncı drone has crashed in Libya for the first time. Images and videos of the wreckage were shared online shortly after the incident. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was found near Agilata, a city situated between Tripoli and the Tunisian border. This marks the first recorded crash of a Bayraktar Akıncı drone […]

Indian Navy Gets Replacement for MQ-9B Drone that Crashed In September

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Months after an MQ-9B Sea Guardian drone crashed into the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Navy has received a replacement for the high-altitude long-endurance surveillance platform from its US-based manufacturer General Atomics, authoritative military sources said on Sunday. One of the two MQ-9B drones that the Indian Navy had taken on lease was lost in […]

California Man Pleads Guilty to Crashing Drone into Canadair During Palisades Fire

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A Culver City man agreed to plead guilty to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in January the Justice Department announced. Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, the former president of Skydance Interactive, has agreed to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of […]