USAF Confirms KAF Beast Mystery Stealth Drone

[unhappycamper]

USAF Confirms KAF Beast Mystery Stealth Drone
It seems to be the mys­tery du jour and I’ve been get­ting a lot of cor­re­spon­dence from read­ers about it over the last two weeks.

Looks as if the Air Force has con­firmed the exis­tence of the “Beast of Kandahar” — a tail­less, flying-​​wing designed drone that looks a lot like NorGrum’s planned Naval UCAS and is a major leap in design over cur­rent “model air­plane” specs. It turns out the Beast is a LockMart Skunky project doing a lit­tle war zone field testing.

The RQ-​​170 Sentinel is being devel­oped by Lockheed Martin and is designed “to pro­vide recon­nais­sance and sur­veil­lance sup­port to for­ward deployed com­bat forces,” the air force said in a brief statement…

Aviation experts dubbed the drone the “Beast of Kandahar” after pho­tographs emerged ear­lier this year show­ing the mys­te­ri­ous air­craft in south­ern Afghanistan in 2007.

The image sug­gested a drone with a radar-​​evading stealth-​​like design, resem­bling a smaller ver­sion of a B-​​2 bomber.


Rest of article at: http://defensetech.org/2009/12/09/usaf-confirms-kaf-beast-mystery-stealth-drone/?wh=wh

[ShortnFiery]

1. Yes, the USA will soon be "Judge, Jury and Executioner" within ANY nation?

SUMMARY EXECUTION via DRONE is now being honed into a fine science (fiction).

[HopeHoops]

2. I doubt it would have a name like "Beast" if they didn't intend to arm it.

The opposition in Afghanistan doesn't have radar. I've seen suggestions that they are using Afghanistan as a staging area for missions into Pakistan, but I think it is more likely that they needed a safe place to test it without risk of detection. Curiously, people have these weird sensors called "eyes".

[Blue Owl]

3. Let's teach it to kill

which will consequently bring peace to Afghanistan