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Rikkitic

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#299009 2-Aug-2022 20:36
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The USA just took out another bad boy terrorist with a drone in the middle of Kabul. That makes me wonder about the logistics of such a feat. Does America have a military presence there? How would they have got the drone into central Kabul? What is the drone's range? I'm not knowledgeable about modern armaments but I assume it didn't come from a ballistic missile. How would something like this be done?

 

 





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  #2950378 3-Aug-2022 18:22
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Drones made by General Atomics, like the MQ-9 Reaper and the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, are the only drones publicly known to carry the Hellfire missile.
These are very large drones with long range, potentially 1,850 km for Reaper.
Maybe much further given full capabilities are probably not published.

 

https://www.asiaone.com/world/little-known-modified-hellfire-missiles-likely-killed-al-qaedas-zawahiri

 

Apparently it might have been a variant of hellfire without warhead, 'all hell no fire' to reduce any collateral damage.
Flying at Mach 1.3 the Hellfire has significant kinetic energy.

 

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