A News Aggregator That Covers The World's Major Wars And Conflicts. Military, Political, And Intelligence News Are Also Covered. Occasionally We Will Have Our Own Opinions Or Observations To Make.
Monday, February 5, 2018
Lockheed Skunk Works' X-44A Flying-Wing Drone Revealed
The Warzone/The Drive: Exclusive: Lockheed Skunk Works' X-44A Flying-Wing Drone Revealed
The aircraft is a missing link in a lineage of shadowy unmanned flying-wing drones built by the legendary Skunk Works.
An aircraft that represents a missing technological link between Lockheed's abortive "Tier III-" RQ-3 Darkstar unmanned penetrating and long-loitering spy aircraft and the company's history making RQ-170 Sentinel is now coming to light. This previously unknown (to the public) flying-wing drone was built by Lockheed Skunk Works in 1999, shortly after the RQ-3 program vanished.
This new program, which aimed to prove rapid manufacturing technologies and penetrating aerial reconnaissance capabilities, as well as the aerodynamic validity of a relatively small, tailless, swept-wing drone, was dubbed the X-44A and first took to the skies in 2001.
Read more ....
WNU Editor: A look at the history of drone development.
No comments:
Post a Comment