Nope, they use the same daylight camera (and it is a vis-light model). The commercial and mil-spec radios are different, but mainly in power and freqs.
ScanEagles crash, and this one likely did in the water (no prop damage). I can assure you they didn't "trick" it to land as it requires a closed loop data stream to catch its arresting wire correctly. The UAV does have the ability to return to base unless GPS signal is lost.