NATO says UAV has gone down in Libya

The unmanned vertical takeoff unmanned air vehicle (VTUAV) was reportedly on an intelligence surveillance mission when the NATO command centre in Naples, Italy, lost contact with the aircraft. 

At the same time, a Libyan television station is reportedly showing video of what the Tripoli government claimed is an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, shot down by its troops. NATO officials said they have not lost any AH-64s, and that they do not know why contact with the Fire Scout was lost; the Libyan footage showed no evidence of enemy fire, but did show burned wreckage.

Fire Scouts are deployed on the USS Halyburton, until recently attached to the NATO anti-piracy task force off the coast of Somalia. Fire Scouts are also deployed to Afghanistan.