The airstrike ability will set down a beacon that will call in an airstrike when activated.
On taking office he called the Kunduz airstrike militarily “appropriate” despite its horrific death toll.
The Afghan government says a NATO airstrike has killed 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan.
Omar Khan was one of 11 villagers the Guardian interviewed about the airstrike.
He and General James Cartwright the vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs favored an airstrike by B-2 Spirit bombers.
He was wounded in an airstrike and spent a month and a half recovering in a hospital in Pakistan.
The spokesman said despite the initial battlefield assessment, U.S.-led coalition forces have launched an investigation into the airstrike.
Military officials in Pakistan say at least 20 militants were killed Friday in an airstrike in a northwestern border area.
In a military setting this could mean passing pictures recognised as a convoy of moving vehicles to a person for confirmation before, say, calling down an airstrike.
The rocky relationship was recently highlighted with the accidental deaths of 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers in a U.S. airstrike along the porous border with Afghanistan.
An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen is reported to hit a hospital run by the aid agency Medicine Sans Frontier.
Afghan officials who visited the region following Friday's airstrike said locals reported similar death tolls, and disputed that Taliban forces were in the region.
Meanwhile, the NATO force apologized Monday for the deaths of civilians Saturday in a U. s. airstrike in Helmand province, but its tally - nine - was lower than the count provided by Afghan officials.
This is how far the U.S. war effort in Iraq has wound down: There wasn't a single American airstrike in Iraq last month, according statistics from the U.S. air Force.
