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NEW PICTURE: Beast of Kandahar UAV
NEW PICTURE: Beast of Kandahar UAV
Posted by Graham Warwick at 5/15/2009 5:49 PM CDT

Because of an apparent copyright issue with the original picture, Air & Cosmos has kindly sent us another picture of the mystery flying-wing aircraft sighted at Kandahar in Afghanistan. At their request, I have substituted it for the picture in the original blog, but post it again here for those interested.

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S-64 Skycrane wrote:
Is that a canopy?
5/15/2009 6:28 PM CDT
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mupp wrote:
More likely an exaggerated shadow from the intake combined with the pee poor photo quality IMHO.....but I'm not an air buff so I stand by for correction
5/15/2009 7:40 PM CDT
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viperfan wrote:
Similar to BAe Raven then.

It's a UAV that first flew 6 years ago.

The previous artist concept based look more like BAe Corax. Could it be two... ? Both BAe?

Or not.
5/15/2009 9:42 PM CDT
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Geogen wrote:
viperfan,

Consider that it could be a BAe craft indeed, or consider it could perhaps be a more US-organic IOC black-project UCAV system - possibly first test-flown 7-8 years ago! Cheers-
5/15/2009 11:25 PM CDT
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Marcase wrote:
I'm still thinking its (a variant of) LockMarts' Polecat...
5/16/2009 2:05 AM CDT
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redstone wrote:
5/16/2009 7:19 AM CDT
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Static wrote:
5/18/2009 11:12 PM CDT
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redstone wrote:
This seems to be a swept-wing design ..... which Darkstar is not .....
5/19/2009 1:07 AM CDT
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Matthew Saroff wrote:
I'm calling it a photoshop of the pulse detonation engine demonstrator LongEZ.. See http://40yrs.blogspot.com/2009/05/adventures-in-aircraft-recognition.html
5/19/2009 7:55 AM CDT
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