US Air Force on Tuesday for the first time confirmed a stealth unmanned aircraft called Beast of Kandahar. The beast developed by Lockheed Martin with code name RQ-170 Sentinel to support combat force, surveillance and provide reconnaissance. The “RQ” prefix for the aircraft indicates an unarmed drone.
A phothograph of a myterius aircraft flyng in Afganstan was taken and published by French aerospace magazine in 2007. Many questions about drone photo in Afganistan why US would be operating stealth aircraft in a country with no radar systems. So there's no unnecessary for a stealth drone in that campaign. This question has raised and so the speculation, some of them tell the drones possibly for spying mission in neighborhood country.
The lines of the drone clearly indicate a stealth design slightly reminiscent of the B-2A Spirit bomber, but smaller. Over on Ares, veteran aviation expert Bill Sweetman describes the wingspan as being perhaps eighty feet, and notes “One important detail: the overwing fairings are not B-2-like inlets, but cover some kind of equipment - satcoms on one side, perhaps, and a sensor on the other.”
The new drone Beast of Kandahar is flown by the 30th Reconnaissance Squadron out of Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, which is under Air Combat Command's 432nd Wing at Creech Air Base, also in Nevada.
The United States has carried out an extensive bombing campaign against Al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan using the Predator and larger Reaper drones. Robots or "unmanned systems" in the air and on the ground are now deployed by the thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan, now the time for Beast of Kandahar spying from the sky for hours on end, searching for booby-traps and firing lethal missiles without putting US soldiers at risk.
The new drone Beast of Kandahar is flown by the 30th Reconnaissance Squadron out of Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, which is under Air Combat Command's 432nd Wing at Creech Air Base, also in Nevada.
The United States has carried out an extensive bombing campaign against Al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan using the Predator and larger Reaper drones. Robots or "unmanned systems" in the air and on the ground are now deployed by the thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan, now the time for Beast of Kandahar spying from the sky for hours on end, searching for booby-traps and firing lethal missiles without putting US soldiers at risk.
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