Dec 1 2009It's So Precious!: Spy Photo Of Mystery Plane
This unknown US mystery plane was recently photographed on an airbase in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and just look at how cute it is! It's like a little baby plane. No word on if its an unmanned aircraft or if there's an actual cockpit, but either way it is a cutie-pie! I mean, sure it's a war machine, but that doesn't mean I can't invite it over for a slumber party, does it? Come on, we'll order pizza and watch scary war movies! I call little spoon (I've burnt my crotch on jet-thrusters before)!
US Secret Plane Uncovered [gizmodo]
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Reader Comments
1. Dan - December 1, 2009 3:15 PM
Cockblock
2. cabbo - December 1, 2009 3:16 PM
Doesn't look very useful. Too small to carry people or munitions, too big to be a camera plane.
Give it a brain!
3. Hayley - December 1, 2009 3:18 PM
Cuute. Do want.
4. I-Kill-Bambi's - December 1, 2009 3:22 PM
almost looks like the aurora spy plane i mean not exactly but a smaller "chubby" version of it
5. gizmoduck - December 1, 2009 3:27 PM
thats not a plane, its my ass
6. J - December 1, 2009 3:28 PM
Sure its not a mystery photo of a spy plane?
7. Troll - December 1, 2009 3:30 PM
I would so fly that into a building
8. flaberghast - December 1, 2009 3:30 PM
so long Geekologie wrighter… the Government is totally going to have you assassinated now
9. nfo - December 1, 2009 3:38 PM
Boeing’s X-45C platform, based on the X-46.
4500lbs payload.
10. Cinema Obsessed - December 1, 2009 3:39 PM
I need to see this against something else for scale... is it really tiny??
11. Richard McBeef - December 1, 2009 3:43 PM
Good work on cockblockin' those first-tards, Dan.
Here is your gold star for the day.
http://folbot.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/gold-star.jpg
12. Scruff Mcgruff - December 1, 2009 3:44 PM
@10 hey homo use my dick and you will be able to tell
13. Sevrin - December 1, 2009 4:08 PM
It looks like a mini version (perhaps a single pilot version) of the B2 Stealth Fighter Bomber without the traditional black anti-radar paint.
14. emptyaddy - December 1, 2009 4:24 PM
An unmanned, mini B2 that only needs to drop one solitary bunker buster - or nuke. About time.
15. cabbo - December 1, 2009 4:44 PM
IT WAS MADE BY INSECTS!
16. nfo - December 1, 2009 4:49 PM
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/x-45c-pics.htm
17. Jazzman - December 1, 2009 5:33 PM
just by looking at i can tell it's Boeing made... aircraft design is like a fingerprint... 9-NFO hit it on the head!!!
18. joeshmo - December 1, 2009 6:19 PM
too big to be a camera plane? have you seen the predator up close? its a monster. stealth spy camera planes are even bigger.
19. cabbo - December 1, 2009 6:23 PM
@18 okay, sorry. I'm not an expert on stealth planes, and I shouldn't have commented. I retract it.
Wait, have YOU seen the predator up-close?
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21. ObamaPacman - December 1, 2009 9:07 PM
The x-47 is shown on Future Weapons S03E09, but all the UAV from that family, including x-45 and x-46, are pretty big.
Judging from the wheel to plane body size ratio, this is a smaller plane. But might still be stealth (but exhaust doesn't match the stealth design theory), and probably has a payload bay.
@1 LOL, keep up the great work Dan.
22. nick - December 1, 2009 9:35 PM
its a stealth UAV has internal payload... look it up
23. Watcher - December 1, 2009 10:00 PM
um it's called a UCAV: Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle. Not as advanced as Eddie from 'Stealth' but you get the idea. Hardly a mystery, if you ever watched Future Weapons you would've seen an episode where they showed off stuff like this. Hardly new or secret.
24. AFGuy - December 1, 2009 10:55 PM
@19 There's a predator on static display at my base. You can walk up and check it out.
25. Monketron - December 2, 2009 12:30 AM
THAT PILOT IS A SPY!!!!!! sorry, ive been playing a lot of tf2 lately.
26. Mac - December 2, 2009 1:28 AM
I think its unmanned. I don't see enough space for life support systems. and it looks like there is a bulge under the front that could be a mounted camera unit.
Either way bad ass. Another flying wing is kinda cool.
27. Gar - December 2, 2009 4:30 AM
That's where the money goes ... and keeps going .. going .. going
28. dangerousdave220 - December 2, 2009 11:53 PM
WE CANT REPEL FIREPOWER OF THAT MAGINITUDE!!!
29. mat - December 29, 2009 8:44 PM
i have seen this fly over my house in georgia where that air space it used for militery test , it was so quiet if i dident see it i would of never know it was a aircraft