A rare Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik—the Russian air force’s first stealthy armed drone—got shot down apparently by an accompanying Russian fighter after the drone seemingly malfunctioned near the Ukrainian-held fortress town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. The wreckage rained down on nearby Kostyantynivka. Imagery from the crash site offers a tantalizing hint at what […]

A previously undisclosed crash of an Air Force MQ-9 crash in Africa in February stemmed from the pilot’s failure to follow the takeoff guidelines and to properly recover the descending aircraft, according to a newly released report. The Feb. 11 incident, which occurred at an undisclosed location, caused no injuries or damage to civilian property, […]

A high-altitude-long-endurance MQ-9B Sea Guardian drone that was taken on lease by the Indian Navy from the U.S. ditched into the Bay of Bengal off Chennai after encountering a technical failure on Wednesday (September 18, 2024). The drone was operating from naval air station INS Rajali in Arakkonam near Chennai, the Indian Navy said. In […]

A Ukrainian first-person-view (FPV) drone hit a Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter over Russia’s Kursk Oblast on Aug. 6, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) told the Kyiv Independent on Aug. 7. The drone, operated by the Special Operations Center “A” of the SBU, managed to hit the helicopter’s tail rotor, the source […]

On August 4, local sources claimed that an American MQ-9 Reaper drone was shot down over Saada province in Yemen. These sources even published photos on the social network X [formerly Twitter], allegedly showing the remnants and debris of the downed MQ-9. However, BulgarianMilitary.com cannot independently verify these claims, and there has been no official […]

An aviation technology company has been suspended from operating unmanned aircraft (UA) after one of its drones crashed-landed in a condominium development in one-north on July 19. The use of the drone, a Hexadrone Tundra 2, is also suspended, said the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) on July 23, adding that the affected drone […]

An inexperienced pilot’s errors exacerbated by an overbearing supervisor caused a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 to crash into the sea in the Middle East last September, a new accident investigation board report has found. The Sept. 3, 2023, accident destroyed the $26.1 million aircraft, and had not been disclosed until now. It was among three […]

In the rugged terrains of Ethiopia’s Oromia region, a Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drone was reportedly downed or crashed in late May, 2024. The incident occurred in the Horo Guduru Welega Zone, an area that has seen its share of conflict. The loss of the Bayraktar TB2, a drone equipped with laser-guided MAM-L munitions, has sparked […]