One of the Thrush 510G being modified at Airborne Technologies’ hangar in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Prince owns at least 25 percent of the company.
The Intercept: ECHO PAPA EXPOSED
Inside Erik Prince’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force.
ON A CRISP SATURDAY in November 2014, a black Mercedes SUV pulled onto the tarmac of an Austrian specialty aviation company 30 miles south of Vienna. Employees of the firm, Airborne Technologies, which specialized in designing and equipping small aircraft with wireless surveillance platforms, had been ordered to work that weekend because one of the company’s investors was scheduled to inspect their latest project.
For four months, Airborne’s team had worked nearly nonstop to modify an American-made Thrush 510G crop duster to the exact specifications of an unnamed client. Everything about the project was cloaked in secrecy. The company’s executives would refer to the client only as “Echo Papa,” and instructed employees to use code words to discuss certain modifications made to the plane. Now the employees would learn that Echo Papa also owned more than a quarter of their company.
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WNU Editor: He is not going to have any shortage of work .... and if successful (which I believe he will be) .... offering a mercenary air-force for combat to many of the war-zones in the world today is going to be a huge and profitable business.
Hat tip to regular reader Jay for this link.
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Imagine you're a fighter with a machine gun and maybe an RPG. A WW2 era plane comes screaming in with nothing but 55.6 cal guns blazing. What do you do? - get killed.
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