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Video footage showing an aircraft with a flying-wing design flying over northern Israel sparked speculations about the participation of the country’s secret stealth drone in the ongoing attack on Iran.
The footage, which surfaced online on June 18, were reportedly taken over the Galilee region. The aircraft was initially identified by some observers as a United States B-2 Spirit strategic bomber. Later, however, it was speculated that the aircraft was Israel’s RA-01 stealth drone as no U.S. bombers were deployed to Israel.
The existence of the RA-01 was first revealed last year in documents leaked from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, detailing Israeli preparations for a possible attack on Iran. This makes the appearance of the secretive drone amid an attack on the Islamic Republic more plusable.
“The Israeli Air Force continued covert UAV [Unmanned Aerial System] operations from 15 through 16 October,” the documents stated at the time, with imagery analysis indicating that the Israelis drone is capable of conducting extended intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions over sensitive regions, including Iran.
The documents revealed that RA-01 drones are based at Ramon Air Base in southern Israel. Experts have since identified a pair of secluded fence-off areas at the northeastern end of Ramon with shared direct access to one of the base’s two runways, which could house the drones.
Each of the fenced-off areas has a pair of semi-circular hangers that are approximately 24 meters long and just under 20 meters wide.
Israel never showcased any stealth drones. However, it is completely within its capabilities to develop such systems.
In the 1990s, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) reached at least the wind tunnel testing phase of development on one high-altitude long-endurance drone concept with radar and infrared signature-reducing features, called the HA-10.
A paper that members of IAI presented at the 24th International Congress of the Aeronautical Sciences in 2004 describes the HA-10 as one of “a number of additional high altitude advanced configurations” the company had previously examined “within the framework of the advanced design activity.”
While the aircraft spotted over Galilee could be the RA-01, there are other possibilities. The aircraft could very well be the U.S. top-secretive RQ-180 stealth drone.
The U.S. has backed the Israeli attack on Iran from the start and is now reportedly reading its air forces to join the operation.
The aircraft could also be an Iranian Shahed 181 Saegheh. Close up footage seemed to show a propeller spinning in the rear of the aircraft, very similar to the Saegheh.
The Saegheh, a copy of the U.S. RQ-170 that was captured by Iran in 2011, can conduct reconnaissance and combat tasks, with an operations rage exceeding 1,100 kilometers.
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c’mon…
they didn’t develop shit.
the us tax goy paid for it at the end of a gun, to defend a people that couldn’t give less of a fuck about america than a hostile space alien invader would. iran has more respect for america than israel.
and if that is in fact a b21, its our latest bomber defending a foreign hostile country, not the homeland.
there is no doubt if the us enters the fray iran will kill us servicemen. what threat does iran pose to the us? adelson’s millions buying the lives of us servicemen seems immoral to me.
the jewsa and the zio regime are toast. 2025 will be a turning point in history like 1914 or 1945.
looks like iranian attack drone watching posible saboteur trucks with fpv drones around some base
jussa’s skanky pentacon garbage worked so well for the other zionazis in ukrap land. israhell is dooooooooomed.
2 tankers have collided at the entrance to the straits of hormuz. huge fires.
dirty tricks are just normal . the zionist led nato cult has no limits .
iran getting crushed. it’s only a matter of time till iran needs to surrender. cannot win against israel nato uk and eu and usa. next usa and eu and uk target will be china and lastly russia.
china underwent a century of total economic and social upheaval, with dozens of millions killed and the u.s. still couldn’t handle them in 1950.
israel has the gdp of a middle ranking european country and yet all of this advanced costly military technology. even with us and germany funding most how the hell can she afford to foot the bill for all the munitions and war costs. does israel need the wars to keep the economy going like nazi germany did in 1939.
that is not the position of nazi germany in 1945, it was that of the usa.
southfront keeps giving “israel” credit in the hope that the jews will let them use their own domain again. true russians pray for the day when putin will kick the jews out of the motherland to go harass and rape western europe and america, which is what they do best.
israeli cabinet minister gamliel: “we categorically demand that the united states join the war against iran.” (otherwise we are totally fu**ed. oy vey!)
iran should have dismantled their nuclear ambitions. yhen there would have been peace. how hard is that to understand seems manly testosterone rules leaders heads and each does not want to back down. just like russia in ukraine. russia should let nato and ukraine in ukraine, what’s the harm on that?
always someone else to blame when jewish supremacist organized criminals go on a murder spree.
israel fired multiple tank rounds into aid seekers yesterday at a designated distribution site. dozens killed.
the response?
‘we saw a crowd approaching, oops’.
😐
they killed more civilians with tank fire in one incident, than iran has inflicted all week.
who are the bad guys, again?
after a few days the iranian military is already barbecued hahahahaha hahaha haha 🇷🇺=🤡 😆😆😆