Thu Mar 31, 2011 6:9AM
An unmanned US drone has crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, the latest in a number of similar coalition aircraft accidents in the war-ravaged country.
Ruhollah Samon, a Paktia provincial government spokesman in eastern Afghanistan, confirmed Wednesday that the US surveillance drone crashed in Zurmat district, a Press TV correspondent reported.
According to the report, wreckage of the drone has not been found and the Afghan police have sent investigation teams to the area to search for it.
The Afghan official further noted that neither …

Crispin Black: One mistake and Gaddafi could be taken out by a missile ‘fired’ from the Nevada desert

By Crispin Black
LAST UPDATED 10:51 AM, MARCH 19, 2011

It may not be over by Christmas but it should, with luck, be different this time. Here’s why. There is one crucial ace in the pack that Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, the previous targets of no-fly zones, did not have to face on any large scale ­ Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: in plain language, hunter killer …

By Spencer Ackerman
Next, the narcocorridos will sing about the pilotless planes above the heads of their patrons.
It used to be that the Department of Homeland Security flew drones over the U.S.-Mexican border to watch for illegal immigrants. That proliferation of military technology to a civilian mission isn’t without its share of malfunctions: Not only did the communications systems fritz out occasionally, but on at least one occasion, a small drone owned by the Mexican government crashed into an El Paso backyard.
But now the drones are taking on …

by Aaron Saenz February 17th, 2011
For every 50 US soldiers in Afghanistan, we have about 1 robot, but those numbers are getting better every year. From 2009 to 2010, 1400 terrestrial bots were sent to Afghanistan according to Lt. Col. Dave Thompson who spoke at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International program review earlier this month. The Marine Corps Colonel stated that about one third of these robots weren’t used for the explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) missions that such ground bots have become famous …

By David Axe

A fast, stealthy fighter. An aircraft carrier. A heavily-armed attack helicopter. Satellites, satellite-killers and maybe even a rocket-powered space plane. After a decade of meteoric economic growth and expanding global ambitions, China now has weapons to match the U.S. in almost every category.
There’s at least one big missing piece — one that’s indicate of the ongoing technological limitations facing the People’s Liberation Army. Where, oh where, are China’s killer drones? That’s a question I attempt to answer in my latest …