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NATO helicopter lost in Libya is an American unmanned machine type

NATO unmanned helicopter lost in Libya is a new kind of American unmanned machine, Fire Scout, said U.S. defense officials, thereby disclosing the use of this device intervention in Libya.

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"We do not know yet" what was lost radar contact with the camera, a MQ-8B Fire Scout, said an official on condition of anonymity.

Unmanned helicopter, which was no use in Libya raised so far by the Pentagon or NATO, could have been shot down or suffered an accident or mechanical failure of communication systems that allow pilots left the ground to handle it remotely.

This device, which made ​​its first flight in December 2006, the U.S. embarked on a ship off the coast of Libya.

He made ​​a "surveillance and reconnaissance mission over Libya to monitor pro-Qadhafi forces that threaten civilians," said a NATO spokesman, Mike Bracken.

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