Insight: Drone crashes and severed fingers at a $13 billion Silicon Valley military startup

NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) – 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 gory 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. Sign up here. Now it’s happened again. A Romanian Navy official’s hand was caught in a V-BAT propeller on May 12…