USAF’s New ‘Black’ Bird - Faster, Stealthier UAV

Posted on: Aug. 3rd, 2004 || Source: atsnn.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

The air force has plans to develop a new unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV), that would be faster and stealthier than the current fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk's and RQ-1/MQ-9 Predator UAV's. Does this surprise us?
No.
Sightings of high-flying, maneuvering vehicles have been reported during the early and mid 1990s.

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