Another US Unmanned Aircraft Crashes in Southern Somalia Near Kenyan Border

Colonel Aden Dheere, a Somali military official, told Iran’s Press TV that the remote-controlled aircraft went down on the outskirts of Dhoobley town on Wednesday morning.

Two US Unmanned Aircraft Down in Somalia Near Kenyan Border

A Somali military official told Iran’s Press TV that two US operated unmanned aircraft went down in close proximity to Bilis Qooqaani town, which is located 448 kilometers (278 miles) southwest of Mogadishu, late on Saturday.

Another American UAS Down in Somalia

An American surveillance UAS apparently has crashed in the Somali port town of Kismayo, about 500 kilometers south of Mogadishu,which is controlled by the militant group al-Shabab.

American UAS Down in the Sea near Mogadishu, Somalia

Local fighters say that they have shot down a suspected United States operated unmanned aircraft in the south of Somalia near the capital, Mogadishu.

Somalia to Get 4 Ravens

African peacekeepers fighting al-Qaida’s allies in Somalia are about to get their first UAS, courtesy of the Pentagon. Under a proposed $45 million counter-terrorism package, Uganda and Burundi, two major contributors to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will get four small unarmed Raven UAS.

XAG Says Drones Could Beat Locust Swarms at Night

As African countries are getting prepared for the imminent locust crisis, the smart agtech company XAG has proposed that agricultural drones, through more targeted night spraying application, can strongly support the current ground and aerial control measures.

General Atomics Owner Joins Forbes 400

Neal Blue is a brand new member of The Forbes 400. Blue, 84 (estimated net worth $4.1 billion), who as chairman and 80% owner of San Diego-based defense contractor General Atomics (his brother Linden, 83, owns the other 20%, worth another billion) first introduced the Predator drone into the skies 25 years ago to surveil […]

Russian Owl Drone will Hunt tanks

This owl-shaped drone comes from the Zhukovsky/Gagarin Air Force Academy. It’s not the first such bird-imitating drone from the Academy, which also made a falcon-shaped drone. For greater realism, that falcon drone can play prerecorded falcon sounds. (Beyond Russia, there’s a rich field of drones that look like birds, used for everything from advertising sunscreen […]