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Air Force Defends Against Criticism On Drone Losses

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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

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The Air Force is working to minimize crash landings of unmanned aircraft and will eventually incorporate an autonomous landing feature on its large drones, an officer who coordinates the service's unmanned aerial systems (UAS) activities recently said in response to criticism of mounting losses. On April 27, outgoing Pentagon arms buyer John Young criticized the Air Force for failing to heed his instructions to retrofit all MQ-1 Predator UAS with an automatic landing feature, the absence of which has contributed…

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