This video reminded me of something. Lockheed had two very stealthy UAVs that just fell off the radar. The Darkstar and Polecat were probably more advanced (stealth wise) than even the B-2 but we haven't heard anything about them since. Wonder if they're operational?
Monday, April 08, 2013
Skunk Works® UCLASS Concept Video
This video reminded me of something. Lockheed had two very stealthy UAVs that just fell off the radar. The Darkstar and Polecat were probably more advanced (stealth wise) than even the B-2 but we haven't heard anything about them since. Wonder if they're operational?
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polecat crashed during testing:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Polecat
darkstar apperantly was stopped:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-3_DarkStar
give northrum grummans x47b pegasus being relatively mature and doing well in testing i wonder if they are the heavy favorites for the UCLASS competition when they put that into production after development
The Polecat looks like DarkStar ver 2 to me.
ReplyDeletePURE SPECULATION: I bet Polecat is "operational." Whether or not we're using it and if so where? Well, that's another question.