About six months ago, intrepid mil-blogger Michael Yon posted a comment on this blog below an item showing a new photo of an Northrop Grumman X-47B. Yon wrote:
"I saw something like that land at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. (Maybe was something else, but looked very similar.)"
Close, Michael, but not quite. The X-47B still hasn't flown yet. You must have seen the RQ-170 Sentinel, a stealthy unmanned air vehicle (UAV) confirmed by the US Air Force last December but still only glimpsed in a series of grainy or awkwardly-framed images.
Last week, a photo surfaced on a random Flickr page showing the RQ-170 in Kandahar. The image is attributed and copyrighted by Michael Yon, but the Flickr site appears to belong to someone else. It's not clear how the image turned up there, but it's a good thing it somehow came to light. Obviously snapped while Yon was taxiing in a passenger aircraft, the image reveals the best angle of the RQ-170 published so far in the unclassified world.
Thanks, Mr. Yon!
"I saw something like that land at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. (Maybe was something else, but looked very similar.)"
Close, Michael, but not quite. The X-47B still hasn't flown yet. You must have seen the RQ-170 Sentinel, a stealthy unmanned air vehicle (UAV) confirmed by the US Air Force last December but still only glimpsed in a series of grainy or awkwardly-framed images.
Last week, a photo surfaced on a random Flickr page showing the RQ-170 in Kandahar. The image is attributed and copyrighted by Michael Yon, but the Flickr site appears to belong to someone else. It's not clear how the image turned up there, but it's a good thing it somehow came to light. Obviously snapped while Yon was taxiing in a passenger aircraft, the image reveals the best angle of the RQ-170 published so far in the unclassified world.
Thanks, Mr. Yon!
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