According to the US Defense Forum website reported, a few days ago a US military MQ-9 type "Grim Reaper" unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down and crashed in The Afghan province of Paktica, which is located in the border area of the northwest frontier, the Afghan Kabul side has a very weak control over the region, has always been a paradise for Taliban militants, but also a thorn in the eye of the US military in Afghanistan, recently after the NATO coalition commander in Afghanistan General Scott Miller was attacked, the US military launched a number of air strikes against the Taliban in the region, Destroyed a number of training camps of the Taliban, but this time the US Military Death God UAV in Paktica "gutter overturned", the most advanced UAV of the US military in the local combat patrol, a missile suddenly rose from the ground to shoot it down, and then the Taliban and the US military at the same time to try to grab the wreckage, after all, the Taliban preemptively snatched all the wreckage, and took photos to show the results of the battle.
Judging from the photos released by the Taliban, this Death UAV has been completely torn apart, obviously hit directly by an anti-aircraft missile, which has surprised many US military experts, because the outside world previously believed that the Taliban only had the "Stinger" portable air defense missile at most, which was still the weapon of the US military to assist the Taliban in the 80s of the last century to attack the Soviet army, and now even if there is an inventory estimate, the reliability is greatly reduced, and the maximum range of this anti-aircraft missile is only 4000 meters. The maximum lift limit of the Death UAV is 15,000 meters, and even if it is fully loaded with ammunition, it can fly to an altitude of 9,000 meters, far exceeding the range of the Stinger anti-aircraft missile, so what is going on?
After the US military drone was shot down, the Taliban quickly rushed to the crash site to transport all the drone wreckage away, and then the Russian media broke the news that the wreckage of these ADVANCED US military aircraft has been sold at a high price by the Taliban on the black market, and the identity of the buyer is very mysterious, but considering that there are few UAV powers that have the ability to reverse analyze the wreckage of the Death God drone, learn from technology and even crack it, in fact, the identity of the buyer is already about to come out. And why the Taliban suddenly have advanced anti-aircraft missiles that can threaten high-altitude drones seems to have a reasonable explanation.
According to Russian media reports, MQ-9 "Grim Reaper" is the main U.S. military's current Tatsa-type UAV, the number of U.S. military equipment exceeds a hundred, in addition to the United States' close ally British Air Force is also equipped with a number of Death UAV, the UAV has been participating in actual combat in Afghanistan since 2007, with its far more than the manned fighter's time and flexible mobility quickly won the favor of the U.S. military, many times in the U.S. military air raid operations neutral merit, eliminated a large number of Taliban militants and senior commanders, The Taliban seriously lack advanced air defense weapons, so that the slower flight speed, weaker self-defense capabilities of the US U.S. U.S. U.S. aerial vehicles into no man's land, and the U.S. Military Death UAV was shot down, is also a warning issued by the Taliban and other countries, the future of the U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. aerial vehicle activities will inevitably be greatly limited.