The Pentagon has acknowledged that the US is flying drones over Gaza to help Israel locate hostages, demonstrating deep US involvement in the war.
“In support of hostage recovery efforts, the US is conducting unarmed UAV flights over Gaza, as well as providing advice and assistance to support our Israeli partner as they work on their hostage recovery efforts,” Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Friday.
The New York Times reported that the flights started days after October 7, and they are being conducted by MQ-9 Reaper drones, which are capable of carrying powerful missiles. At least six MQ-9s are involved in the operations, which the Times says suggests the US is taking a more “active role” in the war than previously known.
The US has also deployed special operations forces to Israel in the wake of the October 7 attack. US officials said the American commandos are in Israel to help locate hostages and insist they are not assigned to combat roles.
Besides the drone flights and special operations, the US has also shipped new weapons to Israel and deployed significant firepower to the region, including two aircraft carrier strike groups. President Biden is looking for an additional $14 billion to spend on the Gaza onslaught, which is on top of the $3.8 billion Israel receives in annual military aid.
Israel is getting its bread buttered on both sides…
It’s not too late, yet, to change strategies.
The US and Israel need to utilize some caution.
A potential war with Iran, is not advisable.
We are ALL nuclear countries.
I was following until, “It’s not too late?” LOL. Have you been smoking that stuff again?
NA,why not it kills the pain of living in the US and fear of death?”
I am not criticizing her. I’m just jealous. I can’t get my hands on any. All I have is “Russian” Vodka and it’s not 5 o’clock yet.
Eventually there will,be no difference between the bombers and the bombed.
That is why the man who heads up Hezbollah said that things could really get out of hand, a regional war. What would Israel do? Use nukes. A member of Netanyahu’s cabinet talked of using a nuke on Gaza!
Try flying over the Capitol Building…
It is the guard shack. We are in the prison yard.
I seriously doubt the operation is “looking for hostages”.
As if hostages are running around from one destroyed building to another…!
You got that right!
Amen, brother. Just as I doubt nuking two Japanese cities to “save lives.” Just as I doubt invading Iraq to give them, “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” …Sorry. I get carried away…
Es verdad.
Wonder if Israel is being helped by the same collection of fuckwit drone operating incompetents that masterminded the “righteous strike” atrocity in Afghanistan.
No doubt. As always, what they telling us does not match what little we know of what is really happening…
Many questions not so many answers.
And just how will that help, if most of the hostages are being kept inside tunnels?
No doubt.
That is a good question. The drones will hunt for the tunnel entrances, air intakes and location of the generators. Now how good will they be at that mission is an unknown.
The US has also deployed special operations forces to Israel in the wake of the October 7 attack. US officials said the American commandos are in Israel to help locate hostages and insist they are not assigned to combat roles.
They’re unarmed and carrying flowers.
Wearing shorts as well as T-shirts that say: “Peace”…….
Typical Pentagon False Statement…!
You can fool some of the people, but you cannot fool the rest of us!
Yeah right, sure, pull the other one. Best advice for “The Pentagon” better to have the public think their stupid, than open their mouths and prove they are stupid.
Then again we will be asking ourselves and scratch our heads just why they hate us? We just don’t understand why?
they hate our freedumbs
They need to fly over the American taxpayers if they want to find hostages.
snap!
What a great point you have just voiced. While the US is wasting time and money fucking around in other countries our homeland is turning to shit.
Yep. And yep!
An MQ-9 can adopt various mission kits and combinations of weapons and
sensors payloads to meet combat requirements. Its Raytheon AN/AAS-52[citation needed] multi-spectral targeting sensor suite includes a color/monochrome daylight TV, infrared, and image-intensified TV with laser rangefinder/laser designator to designate targets for laser guided munitions.[citation needed] The aircraft is also equipped with the Lynx Multi-mode Radar that contains synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that can operate in both spotlight and strip modes, and ground moving target indication (GMTI) with Dismount Moving Target Indicator (DMTI) and Maritime Wide-Area Search (MWAS) capabilities.[41]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper
In English, please!
Posted from Wikipedia.
They have a serious sensor camera package. Of course that won’t stop them from blasting grandma in her cabbage patch in Pakistan or some guy filling water cans in Afghanistan.
Or kids playing on the beach.
Thanks
They have a lot high tech gear for finding stuff. Will it help in this case? That is an unknown and likely to stay that way.
Yes very sexy, except I don’t get off on military hardware, clothing, accessories, or various and sundry ways to suck up taxpayer wealth in the cause of beating the crap out of “The Enemy” of the day.
Otherwise, really cool….
The question is what they will do with them.
“…the US is flying drones over Gaza…”
Palestinians – please do NOT go out collecting firewood, and do not have a wedding or a funeral. The USA considers those “hostile actions”.