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seruriermarshal said:A photo RQ-170 in Creech AFB
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seruriermarshal said:Nice pics fightingirish ;D
fightingirish said:foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com - Is This Proof That The US Air Force Can Aerially Refuel Stealth Drones?
I will wait and see, if the RQ-170 can really be refuelled in the air. The RQ-170 might be just using the tanker radar shadow.
Jeb said:fightingirish said:foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com - Is This Proof That The US Air Force Can Aerially Refuel Stealth Drones?
I will wait and see, if the RQ-170 can really be refuelled in the air. The RQ-170 might be just using the tanker radar shadow.
I want to know where they think a boom could plug in on the RQ-170.
quellish said:Jeb said:fightingirish said:foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com - Is This Proof That The US Air Force Can Aerially Refuel Stealth Drones?
I will wait and see, if the RQ-170 can really be refuelled in the air. The RQ-170 might be just using the tanker radar shadow.
I want to know where they think a boom could plug in on the RQ-170.
That is a very good question.
flateric said:Classified UAV ability for operational aerial refueling - so classified that Northrop spends millions to repeat it in white world.
And then web blog discloses it and source and author are not in party vans?
...that also would add a BUNCH of problems while flying behind big vortices generator aka KC-135quellish said:It is a physically small aircraft with limited internal volume.
Flyaway said:Another article on this sighting from Aviation Week.
http://aviationweek.com/defense/pictures-lockheed-martin-rq-170-sentinel-sighting-california
Ian33 said:
New shots of a modified / adapted 170.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/8036/exclusive-uniquely-configured-rq-170-stealth-spy-drone-appears-at-vandenberg-afb
The timing is interesting.
"Since Kelly’s visit in October, the 432nd AEW has begun flying MQ-9 Reaper sorties out of Romania, successfully deployed and redeployed RQ-170 Sentinel forces, and broke ground on the 25th Attack Group’s forthcoming headquarters and operations building at Shaw AFB, South Carolina," the 432nd's Public Affairs Office wrote in an official news item.
"RPAs [remotely piloted aircraft] are meeting the needs of Combatant Commanders today – in both contested and non-contested environments," Air Force Colonel Stephen Jones, the Wing's commander, said in a statement. "The wide array of mission sets the MQ-9 and RQ-170 are asked to perform remains our hallmark – we do not shy away from these tough tasks; we remain ready to take them on in all environments."
USAF mentions RQ-170 operations:
"Since Kelly’s visit in October, the 432nd AEW has begun flying MQ-9 Reaper sorties out of Romania, successfully deployed and redeployed RQ-170 Sentinel forces, and broke ground on the 25th Attack Group’s forthcoming headquarters and operations building at Shaw AFB, South Carolina," the 432nd's Public Affairs Office wrote in an official news item.
"RPAs [remotely piloted aircraft] are meeting the needs of Combatant Commanders today – in both contested and non-contested environments," Air Force Colonel Stephen Jones, the Wing's commander, said in a statement. "The wide array of mission sets the MQ-9 and RQ-170 are asked to perform remains our hallmark – we do not shy away from these tough tasks; we remain ready to take them on in all environments."
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Air Force Makes Extremely Rare Mention Of Deployment Of RQ-170 Stealth Drones
More than 10 years after the Air Force publicly acknowledged the existence of these stealth drones, information about their exploits remains limited.www.thedrive.com
It reads a bit like someone stretching a small amount of info to fit a required minimal word count.No its says that the 432nd AEW has begun flying MQ-9 Reaper sorties out of Romania.
It doesn't mention where the RQ-170 was "successfully deployed and redeployed".
The article goes into waffle mode over were the RQ-170s might have been and where they might be (e.g. anywhere where there the bad guys are).
Deployed and redeployed suggests that they were based somewhere (either in the US or overseas) and then moved somewhere else, presumably to cover a hot spot at some point during the last six months.