Thursday, January 9, 2014

Pentagon Will Not Provide The Number Of Drone Crashes It Has Experienced

US drone crashes in Ghazni. Pajhwok Afghan News

Pentagon Unable To Provide Records On Drone Crashes -- RT

Reporters seeking information on US drone safety and crash data were told by Defense Department officials that multiple searches have turned up nothing, indicating the Pentagon is either refusing to turn over records or it has failed to collect them.

The Defense Department (DoD) provided a report to Congress in January that promised to address the challenges faced by unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The department not only oversees the military drones that buzz over the tribal regions of Pakistan and Yemen, but also test by the National Guard and other agencies that fly over the continental US.

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My Comment: I suspect that the Pentagon knows the number .... but it is probably classified "Top Secret".

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