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US military used aircraft disguised as civilian plane in first attack on alleged drug boat: report
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The Trump administration has been hounded with allegations that its ongoing strike campaign against alleged drug boats have violated the laws of war
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I'll be honest, while there's quite a few things that worry me about this attack, the marking of the aircraft that was involved isn't one of them. I can't find a picture of the plane from any link in those pages, but beyond a few hundred feet, you aren't going to see who's air force it's from anyway.
I'll take a guess and say they had a coast guard or SIGNIT aircraft doing surveillance, and calling in the strike from something else at longer range, which is hardly newsworthy in and of itself.
I'll take a guess and say they had a coast guard or SIGNIT aircraft doing surveillance, and calling in the strike from something else at longer range, which is hardly newsworthy in and of itself.
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Nothing President Trump does is exceptionally newsworthy, but the liberals will do anything to smear our president and keep his name in the news to draw attention away from all the pedophile democrats in the Epstein files
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Let’s Talk About The Mysterious “Civilian-Style” Plane Used To Strike A Drug Boat
Common Launch Tubes make it possible to discreetly arm virtually any aircraft, including types that might appear to be entirely civilian.“It is not clear what the aircraft was. While multiple officials confirmed that it was not painted in a classic military style, they declined to specify exactly what it looked like,” according to the story from the Times. “The aircraft also carried its munitions inside the fuselage, rather than visibly under its wings, they said.”
It was “a secretive military aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane,” according to the Post‘s report. “The munitions were fired from a launch tube that allows them to be carried inside the plane, not mounted outside on the wing.”
“The Pentagon has told lawmakers that it chose an aircraft painted in civilian colors to carry out a lethal Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean because the unit could be the quickest ready for the operation,” per the Journal. That report also included statements from the Pentagon and the White House that did not expressly confirm or deny the use of a civilian-looking plane.
[The War Zone nerds out on what it may or may not have been, reaching no conclusion.]
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The main concern with this sort of thing is that it has the effect of painting a target on civilian craft - if your adversary knows that you're willing to disguise your military vehicles as civilians, then they're going to shoot at civilian vehicles as well as military ones. Past a certain point, this is less relevant (e.g. Ukraine and Russia both make extensive use of civilian vehicles, mostly as transports), but in the sort of minor conflicts and skirmishes that the US routinely engages in, it's a genuine concern.
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