Recently, a mysterious stealth UAV haunt near Kandahar in Afghanistan, has caused great concern to the military observers. The UAV a picture quickly spread network, the U.S. Air Force has finally come out statement acknowledged that the aircraft is that they, whose name is called “RQ-170″, in fact, this most suspicious stealth UAV is that: the Taliban did not need to deal with stealth aircraft, the Taliban almost no-to-air missiles, radar and, then, why should the Afghan deployment / testing of this mysterious stealth UAV? U.S. Global Station road network and the “Aviation Week” website were this to be resolved, and speculation: The reason why the U.S. Air Force deployed in Afghanistan this unmanned aerial vehicles, aimed at testing its leap over China when the stealth performance.

U.S. Global Strategic Network December 4, 2009 published, entitled “The Mysteries of UAV in Afghanistan has been shot to capture,” the article put forward his own point of view.

The article first said that last year in April, the second largest city in Afghanistan, the U.S. Air Force base near Kandahar, it was recognized here, there is a deployment of unknown type, propelled by a jet engine UAV. Today, there are already one about this UAVs photos. Some people speculated that this is a U.S. secret UAV project, which with France is similar to the design of the Neuron unmanned aerial vehicles, “neuron” is a 6-ton jet engine propelled combat and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles, but the UAV is still in the research and development stage, the next two years are not expected to conduct its first flight.

The U.S. media said that within a few days, Afghanistan photographs of this mysterious unmanned aerial vehicles have been all over the Internet, the U.S. Air Force finally admitted that it is their UAVs, and said that it was not equipped with a weapon called “RQ-170 “The UAV, but the Air Force did not disclose further information, seemingly trying to keep it as long as possible part of the project confidential.

This was found in Kandahar, a flying wing UAV using pneumatic layout, similar to the U.S. Air Force and Navy R & D X-45 and X-47 UAV, both UCAV, Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles can be carrying weapons, which were exposed to this mystery UAVs may also be an ammunition compartment. U.S. Air Force’s X-45A unmanned combat aircraft in 2004, the first time launch smart bomb experiment. There are a number of secret surveillance purely as a test machine used in jet engines as the driving force of the UAV designs.

In fact, this UAV is the greatest suspicion: the Taliban do not need to deal with stealth aircraft, they do not have radar and on-air missile, then why should the Afghan deployment / testing of this mysterious stealth unmanned machines? Global strategic networks gives two possible explanations. First, you may want to test the combat environment, the fight against the enemy is hard to find when the performance of this UAV. The second reason may be testing the UAV in leap over China when the stealth performance (there is a border between China and the Afghan border), or to test a leap neighboring Iran and Afghanistan over the stealthy nature.

Global Strategic Network article also said that the United States for such UAVs flying for 6 years, similar to this design have been carried out UAV aerial refueling, formation flying, and in a simulated aircraft carrier deck landing Dengxiang experiment.

In addition, the United States, “Aviation Week” website published a December 4 written by David A. Fulghum related articles, article entitled “U.S. Air Force said the deployment of stealth UAV.”

The article first said that the secret has been published. U.S. Air Force has confirmed that “Kandahar of the Beast,” the existence of unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned plane was found at the end of 2007 flying in Afghanistan. This jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle using tailless flying-wing aerodynamic layout, the upper surface of the wing on each side has a streamlined sensor module, which is RQ-170 Sentinel, by Lockheed – Martin Corporation a subsidiary of the famous Skunk plant research and development.

Articles pointed out, an Air Force officer on the afternoon of December 4, “Aviation Week,” revealed that they “are developing a stealthy unmanned aircraft system for the forward deployment of combat troops to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support.” U.S. Air Force said in a statement, RQ-170 UAV deployment and Defense Secretary Robert – Gates on “to increase combat commander of the intelligence, ISR support” requirement is consistent with, but also with the Army Chief of Staff Norton Schwartz on “increasing USAF reliance on unmanned aircraft, “point of view is consistent.

The article says, when the RQ-170 stealth UAV projects were in the secret state, which consists of Nevada, Tonopah Test Range, also known as Area 52, the 30th Reconnaissance Squadron flight, there is the F-117 stealth fighter-bombers of the “home” . Later, RQ-170 belong to the Air Combat Command, deployed to the Nevada Creech Air Force Base. In Afghanistan, Kandahar, RQ-170 to be seen from the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems hangar belongs in the fly.

RQ-170 stealth unmanned aerial vehicle named some resemblance with the F-117, and its name (RQ) is right, but behind the numbers (170) a bit out of order, which is to avoid some people a (secret) project to speculate whether the presence of. Technically, “RQ” indicates that this is the naming of a non-armed UAVs, rather than similar to “MQ” prefix of the name, MQ named for the prefix type of armed MQ-1 “Predator” and the MQ -9 “Death.” U.S. Air Force-related statement, the expression “as the front-line fighters deployed to provide support”, coupled with the moderate UAV Stealth (passivation edge design, simple, and wings on the nozzle and the sensor module), these indicate that RQ-170 “sentinel” is a tactic to front-line operational deployment of the platform, rather than a strategic intelligence collection (aircraft) design.

“Aviation Week,” the article also this mysterious surviving a few questions about UAVs. If it is a high-altitude aircraft, and its coating is not the usual color, but the body is a medium gray color, similar to “Predator” and “death” rather than dark gray or all black – a Tu installed in high-altitude flight is to provide the best concealment. From the appearance point of view, this aircraft has a wingspan of about 65 feet (19.81 meters), and MQ-9 “Death,” UAV is similar. With regard to this mystery that only a few pictures of the UAV can be used as a basis for judging these photos were shot from the left, it gives the impression that it is: a relatively deep center of plump body and the external opportunities and integration into the一起. In view of this low detectability of design, the UAV will be used to leap in his country’s borders, spy on China, India, Pakistan, to obtain valuable and telemetry of missile test-firing of the intelligence data.

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