This must have been incredibly terrific ! conceive of rumbling along in your massive C-130 over Afghanistan , when KABOOM , a UAV sweep into your wing and tear a big glob out if it . Now imagine having to land like that .
sUAS News relaysthe following dispatch from the scene :
On faithful inspection I could see a part of the one blade had been relegate off the No 2 locomotive engine which seemed to not have feathered to the full , the massive hole in the left-hand annexe had broken the fuel armored combat vehicle , and was told that they believe the wing , main spar and wing box was also bent .
I ’m still wondering if she will ever get airborne again but if not , she had done one Inferno of a last flight of stairs and the crew must have done an amazing job get the wounded snort down on what is one of the more challenging runway I ’ve ever seen . Not often that you get to hear of survivors of a mid - air hit .
No Scripture on how the RQ-7 poke make out after the overhead — believably not well!—but it must have been one hell of a clobber Aries the Ram . Each RQ-7 weigh up to 375 pounds with a full payload , and travels at speeds up to 135 MPH . Now conceive of that hitting you while you ’re ten-spot of thousands of feet in the air — probably bad than a spate of anti - aircraft fire . Major congratulations to the crew for play the air truck down safely , and for not peeing their pants in the process . The full and the brightest , for substantial . [ sUAS News viaDefenseTech ]
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