Friday, May 15, 2009

Kandahar = “Black” Plane Playground


From War Is Boring:

Carpeted with poppies and teeming with Taliban fighters who blend in with the local populace, southern Afghanistan is most often thought of as a proving ground for low-tech counter-insurgency tactics. But Kandahar, site of the biggest NATO and U.S. base in the region, is also home to a bewildering array of sophisticated, and secretive, experimental aircraft.

An obscure French magazine has the first photo of a mysterious drone that aviation guru Bill Sweetman has dubbed “The Beast of Kandahar,” pictured. Looks a lot like Lockheed Martin’s recently declassified Polecat prototype, no?

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My Comment: I love stories like this one.

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