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US drone crashes in Waziristan: Officials

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Security officials say it crashed apparently due to some technical faults.

MIRANSHAH: An unmanned US drone crashed in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal district on Sunday, Pakistan security officials said.

The drone crashed in South Waziristan, part of the lawless tribal belt that Washington calls a global headquarters of al Qaeda, the officials told AFP.

“The American drone crashed in Zangara village of South Waziristan, apparently because of some technical faults,” a security official in Peshawar said.

Zangara is 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Wana, the main town of South Waziristan.

Two intelligence officials in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, confirmed the incident. It was an armed Predator drone, they said.

The United States uses unmanned surveillance aircraft in its war against the Taliban in Afghanistan to monitor militants in Pakistan, from where al Qaeda and Taliban-linked fighters launch attacks in Afghanistan.

It also uses Predator armed drones to launch missile attacks aimed at militants in Pakistan’s unstable northwestern border areas.

US drone crashes are very rare in Pakistan, but a surveillance drone equipped with a camera crashed in southwestern Pakistan on August 25.

In September 2008, tribesmen in South Waziristan claimed to have shot down another surveillance drone in Jalal village, near the Afghan border.

The Pakistani army said at the time that it was investigating that incident but did not make the results of the probe public.

The US drone campaign is deeply unpopular among an anti-American Pakistani public and the government has publicly demanded an end to the attacks.

However, in private, Pakistani military and civilian leaders are thought to co-operate with the programme and Washington says it has been successful in eliminating a number of al Qaeda- and Taliban-linked militants in Pakistan.

Around two dozen drone strikes have been reported in Pakistan since elite US forces killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in a suburban home near Pakistan’s main military academy in Abbottabad, close to the capital, on May 2.

US drone crashes in Waziristan: Officials – The Express Tribune
 
Good now salvage what ever you can, and dont be lazy abt it.
Yeah! But big brother China is waiting in the wings to take the parts back to China to reverse engineer it. Expect a 'new' copycat drone in the Chinese armory after a year or so probably called Fu Cheng 1!!! :azn:

Cheers!
 
It was shot down by locals saying GEO and ARY. Pakistan will give it back to Americans with both hands. They will call their master themself and will tell them SIR WE HAVE UR IMMANT WERE AND HOW CAN WE DILIVER IT BACK !!!
 
It was shot down by locals saying GEO and ARY. Pakistan will give it back to Americans with both hands. They will call their master themself and will tell them SIR WE HAVE UR IMMANT WERE AND HOW CAN WE DILIVER IT BACK !!!

and they may very well also compensate for the loss of the piece.
 
Yeah! But big brother China is waiting in the wings to take the parts back to China to reverse engineer it. Expect a 'new' copycat drone in the Chinese armory after a year or so probably called Fu Cheng 1!!! :azn:

Cheers!

Do u know how AMericans and Russian copied German airplanes after world war was over ? Americans and Russian were shocked when they found out both had copied same plane in korea war.
 
does taliban of waziristan possess antidrone technology or any type of missiles????
 
Yeah! But big brother China is waiting in the wings to take the parts back to China to reverse engineer it. Expect a 'new' copycat drone in the Chinese armory after a year or so probably called Fu Cheng 1!!! :azn:

Cheers!

I remember the line that I love the most after reading the above comments:

Indian phir roo rahay hain.
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Yeah! But big brother China is waiting in the wings to take the parts back to China to reverse engineer it. Expect a 'new' copycat drone in the Chinese armory after a year or so probably called Fu Cheng 1!!! :azn:

Cheers!

and 6 months later pakistan will havce it as JD1. Back on thread isnt that the second one in the last 2 months
 
how can a Pakistani official in Pehsawar say that a US drone crashed apparently due to technical faults?

Unless the Pakistanis's were flying it of course!?
 
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