The fall of the “MQ9 Reaper” UAV of the US Army in Poland

The MQ9 Reaper attack and reconnaissance drone belonging to the US Army, which took off from Romania and was on its way to a base in the Miroslavets region in northwestern Poland, lost contact and then made an emergency landing outside the airport. has fallen.

Following this incident, the Polish general explained the details of the accident of the American MQ9 Reaper drone in the northwest of this republic.

Irenius Nowak, Inspector General of the Polish Air Force told reporters: We had a sleepless and rather stressful night; Both at the command and at the base of 12 drones in Miroslavets. During the training flight of the American MQ9 Reaper drone, the drone lost control and crashed during a forced landing near Miroslavets Airport.

He clarified that the crashed Reaper took off from a military base in Romania and was supposed to land in Poland. He said: “The plane was performing a routine training mission. It was supposed to test and practice landing at Miroslavets airport in automatic mode, which was unsuccessful.

He said that after losing control of the drone, they tried to transfer control to the Polish control center.

Novak stated that this plane was found 9 minutes after the crash.

According to him, since this drone belongs to the American army, the American side will investigate the causes of the accident with the help of Polish experts.

At the same time, the general considers the loss of GPS signal unlikely as the cause of the accident. “There’s been a lot of speculation in the press about this. I can say that at first glance it’s not about GPS,” he said, adding that after the communication was lost, the Reaper continued to fly.

Reaper is one of the most expensive drones of the US Army.