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  • Germany Offers Unmanned Plane for UN Weapon Inspection in Iraq

    11/30/2002 2:03:03 PM PST · by knighthawk · 4 replies · 224+ views
    Peoples Daily ^ | November 30 2002
    Germany has agreed to lend an unmanned reconnaissance plane and its supporting personnel to aid the United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq, it was announced Friday. Deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg said Germany would provide one of its LUNA X-2000 remote-controlled aircraft after the United Nations approached Berlin for help. The German army began testing the LUNA X-2000 in Kosovo two years ago. The drone is equipped with high-powered video cameras that transmit live pictures to operators on the ground. The supporting crew will be German soldiers who are officially on leave from the armed forces while doing UN work,...
  • Unmanned US spy plane crashes in Pakistan

    07/10/2002 4:14:28 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 13 replies · 222+ views
    The Times of India ^ | July 10 2002 | AP
    WASHINGTON: An unmanned US spy plane crashed in Pakistan on Wednesday, US officials said. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cause appeared to be engine failure rather than hostile fire. It was the second Global Hawk aircraft to crash since the war in Afghanistan began last October. The first, in late December, went down in an undisclosed country near Afghanistan. The Air Force said last week that an accident investigation pinpointed structural failure as the cause of that crash. The investigators traced the problem to an improperly installed bolt that caused a control rod to fail. The...