[url]http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2009/12/kandahars-loch-ness-mystery-pl.html[/url]
[img]http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/assets_c/2009/12/kandahar%20uav-thumb-500x188-55227.jpg[/img]
[quote]Kandahar's Loch Ness monster has been spotted again. This time an actual photo of the beast was published by French journalist Jean-Dominique Merchet, who writes for the Liberation newspaper, on his Secret Defense blog. We last saw the mystery Kandahar aircraft in a drawing by Shephard's Unmanned Vehicles and a very grainy photo published by Air & Cosmos.
The new photo offers a slightly better view of the nose. Is that a canopy screen above the nose? I wondered in May if this might actually be a manned aircraft, even if it was first sighted on UV.com. If there is a cockpit, where is the air intake for the engine? The half-moon exhaust pipe strikingly resembles the P175 Polecat, a Skunk Works product.
Regardless of how it is piloted, the Kandahar aircraft's existence raises several existential questions: What does it do? Why do you need a stealthy-looking aircraft to spy on Al Qaeda and the Taliban? What's all the secrecy about? While I'm asking, can somebody please get a head-on picture?[/quote]
that plane looks awesome :buddy:
Not very secret then, is it?
Looks like the stealth plane that the U.S. is already using.
A new version of that.
[QUOTE=Furfurag;18700864]A new version of that.[/QUOTE]
Must've came up with new technology for the stealth because it doesn't look like it would interrupt radio waves and prevent it from being tracked.
It's not so secret anymore.
And it's ugly.
It'll kill us all.
It looks like that UAV in development, guess they're field testing?
It looks like an unmanned UAV.
There also has to be a successor to the SR-71 so that may be it
[QUOTE=Within;18700940]It's not so secret anymore.
And it's ugly.[/QUOTE]
Appearance doesn't matter as long as it does it job.
I guess they've made a new version b 52 which is cheaper
and easier to make..
[QUOTE=Furfurag;18700864]A new version of that.[/QUOTE]
it's a new UAV
It looks like the kind of shit that should be able to turn invisible.
It's either a new UAV or some type of Stealth Plane. Too sleek to be anything else.
Weather balloon
When I saw the title I was hoping for an Aurora sighting.
[img]http://robocat.users.btopenworld.com/Images/aurora_mach_6-plus_attack_us_war_aircraft.jpg[/img]
[img]http://z.hubpages.com/u/265817_f520.jpg[/img]
Now that is a kickass plane.
It looks like the short-bus had a baby with an F-22.
[QUOTE=Saxon;18701053]It looks like an unmanned UAV.
There also has to be a successor to the SR-71 so that may be it[/QUOTE]
Unmanned Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
Enemy UAV spotted.
[QUOTE=Edthefirst;18702785]When I saw the title I was hoping for an Aurora sighting.
[img]http://robocat.users.btopenworld.com/Images/aurora_mach_6-plus_attack_us_war_aircraft.jpg[/img]
[img]http://z.hubpages.com/u/265817_f520.jpg[/img]
Now that is a kickass plane.[/QUOTE]
Too bad the Aurora either never existed or was phased out by now. I got the book in my room, and wrote the TinWiki article on the thing a few years back.
Anyhow this thing looks cool. We prolly have a few hundred different secret aircraft that we never use, never complete, or never get very far. Every once in a while we'll get some that we use for a good 5-10 years before we even announce their existence, but that's getting harder to do now a'days. We did that with the F-117, SR-71 and B2.
It looks like one of the planes from BF1942: Secret Weapons of WW2.
[QUOTE=piddlezmcfuz;18704269]the HO-229 [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229[/url]
It looks like a miniature version of it with a fat nose.[/QUOTE]
Thanks.
Man that is fucking awesome
If it's so secret why did we see it?
conspiracy :tinfoil:
Looks like a waste of money to me.
[QUOTE=Rubs10;18704035]It looks like one of the planes from BF1942: Secret Weapons of WW2.[/QUOTE]
the HO-229 [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229[/url]
It looks like a miniature version of it with a fat nose.
Looks almost exactly like the X-45 UCAV. They're probably field testing designs.
Vaguely reminds me of one of the aircraft in CNC Generals Zero Hour mod Contra.
The fat nose probably houses a satellite dish like in the Global Hawk
Stealth UCAV. Okay.
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