Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
The military already has had mid-air collisions between UAVs and fixed-wing aircraft -- luckily the fixed-wing aircraft survived the encounter....
Actually, a few years ago we heard of a army helicopter (Kiowa, if I remember the unclass report correctly) that was clipped in the side by one the smaller Raven type of UAV's after the operator tried some evasive manuevers after a data link problem. Obviously, the Raven was destroyed and the side of the helicopter was dented pretty good as well. Thankfully, the stars, moon, and planets all where in alingment as if the helicopter or the Raven UAV were in any different position the outcome may have been quite different.