Army Air-Launched Drone Article on HADES Jet
What This Image Shows
The recurring caption block on this slide is the deck's core flight claim, repeated on every N1098L slide: "The Flight N1098L is designed to launch military drones. Normally flies at 41,000' altitude. Dropped to 203' altitude 116 knots stall speed @ 9:16am MT 1-mile from UVU. Then looped back to 1-mile from UVU and 203' altitude @ stall speed 25 minutes after assassination." The header calls the aircraft a "Drone Spy Plane" associated with the callsign AXEL10 and the Army's HADES program.
This slide is where the deck sources its "designed to launch military drones" premise. It reproduces two news items: one headlined "U.S. Army to Test Launching Drones from Aircraft" by Julia Alexandrova, and one headlined "Army Wants To Test Air-Launched Drones From A Global Express Business Jet" by Thomas Newdick, with the standfirst "The planned trials tally with previous comments about launching the drones from the new Global 6500-based HADES surveillance jet." The article text states the Army is considering testing drone launches from a specialized Bombardier Global 6500 to enhance the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program.
Read the numbers as the deck author's reading of public flight-tracking data, not as a finding. Low, slow passes near an airport corridor are ordinary, aircraft descend on approach, and no agency has said N1098L had any role in events at Utah Valley University. The deck itself states on its closing slide that "No claim is made that drone assassinated Charlie Kirk. Or that flight crew knew about assassination." There is an important gap here that the slide does not close: reporting that the Army wants to test air-launched drones from a HADES-type airframe is not reporting that any such system was installed on N1098L, or used, or used in Utah. Planned trials are not deployments.
For the site's analysis of this aircraft see N1098L and HADES over UVU, the N1098L spy plane page, and N1098L air-launched drones. See also military drones on video and the Drones section.
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