A day after the announcement of the downing of a RQ-170 in Iran, the Public Intelligence website received an FOUO report entitled “Operating Next-Generation Remotely Piloted Aircraft for Irregular Warfare” published in April 2011 by the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. Continue reading
Category Archives: Accident Reporting
Iran Hacked RQ-170 GPS – Fooled into Autopilot Landing in Iran
Iran guided the CIA’s “lost” RQ-170 to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone’s systems inside Iran. Continue reading
Iran Refuses to Return RQ-170
Photo: David Cenciotti
Iran has rejected a US call for the return of an unmanned surveillance aircraft captured by Iran’s military earlier this month. Continue reading
MQ-9 Crashes on Landing at Seychelles International Airport
Photo : Le Seychellois Hebdo
A US unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed on Tuesday at Seychelles international airport on the main island of Mahe, the US embassy said. Continue reading
US Asks Iran to Return Lost RQ-170
Photo: David Cenciotto
The US Government is asking Iran to return the Lockheed Martin-built RQ-170 Sentinel that was recently downed over that country. Continue reading
Iran’s RQ-170 – Real or Fake ?
Photo: The Aviationist
A former senior Pentagon official with extensive knowledge of unmanned aircraft expressed great scepticism of the aircraft supposed to be a stealth RQ-170 shown on Iranian television.
Iran Shows Off Downed RQ-170 on State TV
Iran has released video of the unmanned Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel that apparently crash-landed inside Iran. Continue reading
US Weighed 3 Options for Destroying Downed RQ-170
US officials considered a covert raid to either destroy or recover the wreckage of a stealth RQ-170 unmanned aircraft that crashed in the rugged terrain of Eastern Iran last week, but decided that a military operation of that nature might spark a declaration of war from that country’s leadership. Continue reading