A160T crashes in Mojave.

via Alert5 and Mercury News.

"The A160T Hummingbird reconnaissance helicopter crashed Wednesday afternoon two miles from a runway at Southern California Logistics Airport, the old George Air Force Base near Victorville where Boeing Advanced Systems has a test facility.
The helicopter, which is 35 feet long and has a 36-foot rotor diameter, was approaching Runway 17 when it crashed. The cause of the crash hasn't been disclosed."

Sweetman has been complaining about bandwidth issues with UAVs and now, in addition to the crashes in the war zones and the revelations in the WikiLeaks saga, we have this.

The question remains.

Who has been pushing UAVs?  The services in order to fully fund a revolutionary vehicle or the makers of these vehicles in order to keep the gravy train going?

Either way, we've been deceived when it comes to an actual discussion of their utility and their survivability in modern warfare.  We're not their yet...not even close.