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Pentagon Raps Air Force For Omitting Auto-Landing Feature On Predator Drones

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

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The Air Force has not heeded Defense Department instructions to retrofit its MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles with an automatic landing feature, the absence of which has contributed to the loss of a third of the fleet to crash landings, according to a top Pentagon official. "We've lost a third of the Predators, and probably a sixth of...those losses could have been avoided if the Predators had auto-land capability," outgoing Defense Department weapons buyer John Young told reporters at the…

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