Looks like the US military has a new secret aircraft. Either that or the Nazis are taking over the world again, because according to other photos this looks like the Luftwaffe’s Go229 Flying Wing:
This an artist rendering based on (not so) classified and unpublished photos obtained by UVonline.com reporter Darren Lake. The photo of the unidentified flying object—which apparently is a mystery unmanned aircraft nobody has ever heard off—was taken in Kandahar in 2007, but has been published now by a french magazine. [Air-Cosmos and UVonline via Flight Global]
Phil Harvey
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 8:47 AMHave a look at a B-2 bomber (or a photo or model if you do not happen to have one at hand) from the front-left-lower quadrant (about 45 degrees left and 30 degrees down) while it has the landing gear down. As in this photo you can see the nose and then the distinctive bulge of the cockpit and the left air intake along the top, the tricycle undercarrage and covers on the bottom, and the angular rear edge of the aitcraft on the right.
There is nothing remarkable about this photo, it is a B-2, probably coming in to land.
Ollie
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 10:10 AMErrr… you guys posted and article on Boeing’s stealth drone already… looks much the same. Then there’s always the B2…
Michael
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 9:02 PMCome on guys, thats clearly not a B2, besides the fact that B2′s never land in Afganistan, they operate solely out of US bases.
The scale of this vehicles undercarriage compared to its fueselage shows it is clearly much smaller.