
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last Friday evening said one of its surveillance drones experienced a nose-wheel collapse after touching down that day, resulting in a hard-landing and extensive damage. A CBP spokesperson on Tuesday told Defense Daily the damaged drone is a Guardian unmanned aircraft system, which is a maritime variant of the MQ-9 Predator B built by General Atomics. Damage to the aircraft is still being assessed, the spokesperson said. The aircraft had just returned from a 10-hour…