Drone crashes and severed fingers at a $13 billion Silicon Valley military startup
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- Add ARY News on Google AAResize NEW YORK: A year ago, Ryan Tseng, the head of U.S. defense tech startup Shield AI, announced his company had turned a new page.
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- Shield AI acquired the V-BAT, a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft designed for military uses, when it bought Martin UAV in 2021.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize NEW YORK: A year ago, Ryan Tseng, the head of U.S. defense tech startup Shield AI, announced his company had turned a new page. After a drone crash incident that partially severed a U.S. Navy official’s fingers during a test of its V-BAT drone, Shield AI had addressed safety concerns with new landing gear and warning stickers near the propeller. “(The) aircraft is, tip to tail, just a radically better airplane,” Tseng told Forbes last year.
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A Romanian Navy official’s hand was caught in a V-BAT propeller on May 12 during a Shield AI training exercise on a boat off the Texas coast – severing two of her fingers and fracturing a third, a spokesperson for Romania’s Ministry of National Defence told Reuters.