Predator C Avenger unmanned aircraft system
A recent series of reports that the US Air Force may have employed at least four F-117A stealth attack aircraft in the Middle East in 2017 caused significant jitters in the mainstream media. Now, they are matching wits in creating a more ‘reliable’ anonymous sources-based story including stealthy US aircraft involved in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
For example, on March 5, The Drive reported that General Atomics Avenger unmanned combat air vehicles may have been employed in the Middle East.
“The latest iterations of the Avenger, which are substantially larger than the original prototype, have a cruising speed of around 400 miles per hour, more than twice that of a Reaper, and a maximum flight time of around 20 hours, depending on what payloads it is carrying. In 2016, General Atomics also flew a new variant of the drone, called the Avenger Extended Range (ER), for the first time. The Avenger ER has since demonstrated an ability to remain aloft for longer than 20 hours.
They also have the ability to carry weapons, including laser-guided bombs, in their internal payload bays, as well as additional stores on up to six underwing pylons. The Avenger can accommodate various sensor turrets with electro-optical, infrared, and multi-spectral cameras, as well as laser designators, on a retractable mount. This allows the drone to operate in maximum stealth mode until it reaches the target area.
These drones, which, like the F-117s, don’t represent the cutting-edge of American low-observable technology, but would still be well suited to conducting discreet and flexible missions over less than welcoming airspace in Syria from bases in nearby neighboring countries. General Atomics says the drones can also self-deploy to a forward operating site or that C-17A Globemaster III or C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft can transport them and other supporting equipment to the desired location,” The Drive report says.
The Drive also adressed a 2016 report claiming that the Avenger was used to conduct a leaflet drop in Syria. The media outlet even went further and claimed that the Avenger may have been involved in airsrikes on al-Qaeda-linked commanders in Syria, something what the US Air Force rarely does.
“But we know for a fact that a handful of Avengers are flying under some classified umbrella for a certain government agency and that they have been active in the Middle East, and Syria, in particular. The claims that the F-117s were returned to service and deployed to the region, on the other hand, come without any hard evidence at all.
If the Avenger has quietly stalked and killed high value targets in sensitive airspace, the program is far more successful than anyone has been allowed to let on.” The Drive concludes.
A Predator C Avenger promo video:
“may have been employed” = marketing speech gag… so what… another flying crap
Another Hollywood trailer regarding US drone capability? ECM, lasers disabling radars and picking up hypersonic SAM missiles like cherries? Wet dreams Pentagon enamoured by Hollywood flair and superficiality.
Secret bombing missions? No problem. We’ll just attach another $2.5 billion to the war reparations the US now owes Syria. This loss is going to be damn expensive for us, Trump.
in fact, we’ll just divert all that ten years worth of $38 billion in US taxpayers’ money that the Israeli-firsters dual-citizen traitors in the US Congress just gave to Israel. They have plenty of money and don’t need it. We destroyed Syria for no good reason – they deserve it.
Maybe we can get Bibi to give back the $3.1 billion we already sent that parasite in 2019? LOL – like that would ever happen.
I can imagine one of those drones dropping a couple of chlorine cylinders on Douma , undetected , with a simultaneous call going out to the White Helmets , saying :
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It has deployed to test and sabotage Russian missile systems.