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US Air Force Confirms New Stealth Aircraft
DesScorp writes "Aviation Week reports that the USAF has confirmed the existence of a new, formerly secret stealth aircraft, designated RQ-170 Sentinel, developed at Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works. Rumors of a secret new jet have been flying since 2007, with longtime aviation journalist Bill Sweetman dubbing the possible aircraft 'The Beast of Kandahar' because of the urban legend-like reports from Afghanistan. The aircraft is a UAV, a pilot-less drone that appears to have some kind of reconnaissance-only mission for the time being. It's a tailless flying wing that resembles a fighter-sized B-2 bomber."
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Hi I'm a guy from Argentina, a country in South America. This entry is an EPIC fail, a biblical fail. Please! Our country is a "melting pot", so we have some tv channels in french, protuguese, italian, english, german; and many us channels are either translated or subtiteled. I am absolutely sure I've already seen this aircraft on "The History Channel". I dont know if in the US it has the same disgusting ammount of propaganda it has here. They're pushing the borders of cultural imperialism and everything they broadcast is designed to show us the "greatness" of "our nation" (they not even say United States). They have many military documentaries, showing how "advanced" they are in killing and destroying, etc. Unpiloted aircafts had been a recurrent topic for some months last year. And now you say its the "new secret". wtf
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If so, that makes even less sense, since it was a broad based popular rebellion that brought down the Shah. In light of that, the only thing that could have possibly stopped it would have been military invasion, and lethal force against civilians, in order to prop up an unpopular, undemocratic, and throughly reprehensible regime.
Not that Khomeni and the Islamic Republic isn't, nor at the time wasn't (except for popularity.)
Yeah you have to feel bad for the pilots.
No, I really don't. They joined the military, they're people who decided to take a job in which you kill people. It's an all-volunteer military, except in practice for the poor kids in court on trumped-up charges as part of the fast track to enlistment, and I assume that relatively few of them become pilots. I'm betting most of them become IED fodder.
Awwww, somebody took away their flying death machines... poor murderers.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"