How many drones can you lose in a month? Apparently not enough: the US Air Force lost another drone today, a General Dynamics MQ-9 Reaper, this time on the Seychelles.
According to the US embassy in Mauritius: “a U.S. Air Force remote-piloted MQ-9 crashed at the Seychelles International Airport in Mahe. The MQ-9 was not armed and no injuries were reported.”
The Reaper is a large unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a hunter-killer UAV that is designed to search for targets at high altitudes. It uses a powerful turboprop engine, instead of a jet like the one used in the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel that recently crashed on Iran. [Reuters]
light487
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:55 AMSkyrim needs to be banned because it makes the drones crash because it makes the people flying them tired.
Ok?
Scott
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:00 AMI could be mistaken, but it looks like the word “Predator” on the side of the drone, which may mean the image is not that of a Reaper. But cool nontheless.
cayal
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:21 AMI was flying my drone…then I took an arrow to the knee.
Watsonega
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 12:20 PMI once lost two droids on tatooine. Cadet was so pissed :(
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 3:07 PMWell it’s cheaper and a whole lot better than losing a full sized fighter along with the pilot.