The DoD has a "surprise" plane....

A lot of platforms like this exist. Dash-8s, king airs, among other things can install common launch tubes as a door kit or engine nacelle add on. However, its very unlikely they were used in the strike mentioned above.
 
The article is just NYT doing a hit piece to rile up the uninformed and prejudiced. There are tons of civilian derived airplanes in inventory that can carry weapons and they've been blowing dudes up with them for decades.
 
Hull down said:
A lot of platforms like this exist. Dash-8s, king airs, among other things can install common launch tubes as a door kit or engine nacelle add on. However, its very unlikely they were used in the strike mentioned above.
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Why unlikely? SOCOM has been leading on these ops, and something like an armed MC-12 in "nondescript" paint scheme would be right up their alley.
 
aim9xray said:
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Would seem to fit the stated criteria?
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All joking aside, X-ray, you probably aren't far off. I suspect that what accomplished that mission was a p8 Poseidon. The New York Times didn't identify the aircraft, which they could have done. The P-8 looks like a civilian a/c and has an internal weapons bay. The only thing that's not a match is they don't have a civilian paint scheme. Well, and they were probably slinging hellfires or similar from their wing hard-points.
I'm not a big fan of some of the idiotic things we've done in the last year so, but the drug cartels declared war on us many years ago and I have no problems with anything at all that we do to take them down.
 
But also:

Administration officials told lawmakers the aircraft wasn’t pretending to be a civilian aircraft and pointed out the fact that it was using a military transponder and had a military tail number, a source said.
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So presumably Mode-S squitting with an AE_____ hex address - not really the way to hide something.
 

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