Kazakhstan Accuses Uzbekistan Of Drone Incursion

This looks mighty like a very simple RC model enthusiasts flight, but people do get hot and bothered about these things. The story was picked up by Joshua Kucera at Eurasianet

Stephen Trimble over at flight has an opinion, I also think it probably is Chinese, but something from HobbyKing rather than the secret service.

There is video here http://www.ktk.kz/ru/news/video/2012/02/17/16156

From KTK:

The UAV crossed the border of our country and went deep into the territory of Kazakhstan. The incident was reported to KTK correspondents by informed sources in the power structures. The aircraft was located in the Kazakh air space for about fifteen minutes. And it went unnoticed by air defense units because it flew at too low an altitude. The drone, presumably belonging to Uzbekistan, flew near two border posts, turned around and headed back toward the border and escaped to a neighboring state. Representatives of the Air Defense Forces and the intelligence units of the Ministry of Defense are involved in the situation. Whether the Uzbek authorities will be sent a protest note, is still unknown.

In model form the Predator/Reaper series are really quite difficult to fly. They need to keep the speed on to avoid tip stalls and that catches many newcomers to sUAS out. It seems to be the very first type most people rush to build though. Anyone that has been flying smaller stuff for a while will raise a wry smile when the see an enthusiastic build start. Seems like somebody in Uzbekistan is just starting out.