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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

US Navy Loses Giant Drone In Crash


The US Navy was all set to roll out its upgraded spy drone, a 13m behemoth. Then one of its Global Hawks crashed into a marsh on Monday. It’s the latest setback for the US Navy’s robotic aircraft.

An unarmed RQ-4A Global Hawk went down on Monday during a training exercise near the naval aviation base in the US state of Maryland, CNN reports. Local news has footage of the wreckage. Only the US Navy’s price was hurt in the accident.

As AOL Defense reports, Thursday marks the debut of a new pimped-out Global Hawk at Pax River, as part of the US Navy’s newest iteration of its Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Program.

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