"It looks a bit like silver bird. It probably was used to spy on insurgents. And now
it’s in the hands of the Pakistanis.
WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson flags pictures of an unusual, unfamiliar
drone that reportedly crashed crashed over southwestern Pakistan late last
week. It’s a surveillance drone, with a camera attached — recovered from the
crash but not apparently visible in this photo — rather than the larger, deathly
flying robots that shoot missiles. This one looks tiny, with a wingspan not much
longer than a man’s outstretched arms, and clearly light enough for a grown man
to carry.
The Pakistani Frontier Corps in Baluchistan province recovered the drone. And
they confidently declare it to be an “American surveillance unmanned aerial
vehicle.” But as Anderson points out, it doesn’t look like anything the U.S. flies —
or at least acknowledges flying. What’s the deal?"
See:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011...s-in-pakistan/