For more than a year we’ve been posting grainy images of the Air Force’s RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone, also known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” and speculating about its potential mission profile. Now, via a tweet from the National Journal’s Marc Ambinder yesterday, we might finally have an answer: “US Joint Special Operations Command SMU -- from DEVGRU (Navy SEALs), did the shooting. RQ-170 drone overhead. JSOC spotters on ground.”
So was the Beast in the air over Abbottabad during the raid on Bin Laden’s compound? That’s the rumor anyhow, and if true it would be the first operation linked to the RQ-170 that we know of. It would also tell us a bit more about what it can do. We know President Obama and company were watching full motion video of the operation as it unfolded, and Ambinder mentions a hyper-spectral sensor elsewhere in his reportage of the event. The Beast could have been providing either, or both.
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I wounld'nt put it past them to have had it in the air over head of the op.
and where are the commenters that bash US technology advances in this field as a waste of money, bunch of fools
Stupid american idiots. With 500 billion dollars invested in the war you could have build lot of useful infrastructure in Afganistan. But you are bent on killing.
Morons with no vision past 4 years of presidency.
You are so brave taking on undeveloped countries. And you make them even less developed. What a bunch of losers.
USA IS STILL FOCUSING ON THE GROUPS WHICH HAVE PUBLICALLY ANNOUNCED THEIR HATRED FOR IT, BUT ALLOWING PAKISTAN TO NURTURE OTHER GROUPS WHICH ARE TARGETING INDIA AND AFGHANISTAN. IT SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT ALL THESE GROUPS ARE GROWING OUT OF THE POLITICO – RELIGIOUS MADRASSAS OF PAKISTAN WITH LIBERAL FUNDING FROM SAUDI ARABIA. THE COMMON ROOT FOR HATRED OF ALL MODERN THINGS AS PER THEIR WAHABI TEACHINGS OF 7TH CENTURY DOES NOT CHANGE ACCORDING TO THE GIVEN TARGET AREA OF THE GROUP. TODAY SOME GROUPS ARE BEING DIRECTED BY THE PAKISTANI ARMY FOR ITS NARROW AIM OF KEEPING TENSIONS WITH INDIA ALIVE TO FURTHER KEEP ITS OWN STRONG EXISTENCE VALID. HOWEVER THE IDEOLOGY OF HATRED IS THE SAME FOR ALL THESE GROUPS AND THEIR POLITICO - RELIGIOUS TRAINERS ARE ALSO SAME. THE GROUPS NOW TARGETING WEST, WERE INITIALLY RAISED FOR MAINTAINING PAKISTANI INFLUENCE OVER AFGHANISTAN. SIMILARLY WITH DWINDLING GROUND SUPPORT FROM KASHMIRI SUFI MUSLIMS FOR THIS BRAND OF HATRED, THESE GROUPS WOULD CERTAINLY FIND RIPE GROUND IN WESTERN COUNTRIES. HENCE THE WORLD SHALL NOT ADOPT THIS PARTISAN ATTITUDE TOWARDS ANY SUCH GROUPS AND THEIR MENTORS. THEIR BASIC IDEOLOGY OF HATE IS SAME AND WON’T REQUIRE MUCH IMAGINATION TO SWITCH TARGETS.
@highermorals
Seriously man this is a science website not a "i am gonna go troll and try to bread hate website" Take it to a political site or one of your terrorist sites. If you hate America stay out. Just so you know with out us "Americans" and our "war" You would not even have a country or home to hate bread from because WWI as well as WWII would of been lost and this world would be a much much worse place. Also there would be no south Korea only Korea because North Korea would of invaded and there would be endless war there as well.. So Mr douche bag STFU and unless you have something intelligent to post about th
@Delkomatic
We need more people like you around lol.
@Delkomatic
After 3000 people died in september 11 to prevent more human losses USA invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
I was absolutely sure at the moment that way more than 3000 people will die. This puts US military in even worst position than terrorists.
US military brings death and destruction not life and prosperity.
So stay away from me. Stay inside your borders.
@highermorals
"US military brings death and destruction" dam right motherfucker and proud/glad its on your people lol.in my opinion we could do a lot more, do you know how much bombs and gas we have.
@highermorals...eat sh#t and die with your terrorist brothers
@highermorals
"With 500 billion dollars invested in the war you could have build lot of useful infrastructure in Afghanistan"
come on man we could put you in a golden place and you'd still be murdering each other over nothing like we used to back in the dark ages , maybe you try moving out of the dark ages and fix your own them country.
@drchuck1
make that camel shit.
@guns are cool
tonight I kill myself: you wanna join? you first!
@highermorals
nah i live my 72 virgin's for later , but go ahead in start the party without me.
that looks like paper plane.