The American Stealth Drone that May or May Not Exist (The RQ-180) 

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Ive had a very hard time believing that the USAF would've gone over 30 years without replacing the capabilities that the SR 71 was providing.

You've forgotten a possibility of WHY they may have been spotted. Not necessarily because they want to "tease" the existence, but if they have been flying for 10+ years and they have been spotted 3 times, it is possible that these were "unscheduled" appearances. If there was an in flight emergency and the aircraft had to be diverted during a flight, it would appear in places at times it was not planned to be, and therefore seen.

3:00 - Chapter 1 - What we think we know 7:45 - Chapter 2 - What we suspect 11:35 - Chapter 3 - What it might be doing

The X-47B Drone (looks identical but slightly smaller to this RQ-180) has been around for a while now in the US Navy and has been operating off of carriers.

I’ve been seeing either the RQ170 or RQ180 here in the Antelope Valley, CA: love right next to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Skunkworks. Never knew the name till now. Looks amazing flying!

Suggestion: Do a video on the Patriot Missle system. A video on a system able to hit a missed with another missle at supersonic speed sounds fun

I'm old enough to remember what the F-19 Stealth Fighter most definitely looked like after all the leaks by the pentagon and various credible bread-crumbs. Each bit of information confirmed the last and comprehensive picture of the F-19's shape and capability seemed to be agreed upon by all of the "experts"... until the F-117 was revealed.

Once its existence is confirmed, I can't wait to see the RQ-180 in action, in Ace Combat 8.

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One of the U-2 landing flight paths into Beale AFB is just slightly to the east of my house. I'd guess that it is no higher than 10K feet when heading north to Beale.

Awesome video, as always! I'm from Guam and know that there's a lot of strategic operations carried out from Anderson Air Force Base. The intelligence stated in this video coincides with how little information is known about the military reaction to China's presence in the waters near Guam. Our country may be guilty of a lot of things that are frowned upon, however, many don't understand the necessary steps that are needed to ensure our freedom and to sustain our way of life.

Could you do an episode on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in Virginia? It's got to be the most terrifying bridge in the United States!

:::USAF::: "Awe, Simon! You love us!!!You really love us!" Jim Carry reference.

if the platform is operating in broad daylight over the United States and Guam and can be filmed and photographed easily ...then there are probably two to three other platforms that are radically more advanced and secretive, that's a guarantee. There are more than likely 4th and 5th generations of the TR-3b ISR airframe attached to the N.R.O.

I'd love a video on that stolen RQ-170 in Iran

Is it called the RQ-180? Good question. The original stealth fighter was long rumored to be designated the "F-19" and it turned out to be the F-117.

Thank you for bring up the B-21 and the RQ-170 and going in to public domain information to clarify your information.

Love the intro and the self-deprecating humor Simon.

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Such an awesome aircraft!

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Flying wings 'DO NOT REDUCE DRAG', they leverage lift in and reduce weight in a slimmer unibody.

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The F-35 has filled some of the persistent ISR requirements by its mere presence in a battlespace due to its network system integration capabilities of enhancing awareness.

I've seen... something like this flying over Colorado, I live near Buckley Space Force Base. It was so high it basically blended into the sky, my eyes could tell the shape far better than my camera.

Flash thingy time!

there is also plant 42 that has a strong history with spycraft (and skunkworks). keep an eye on google maps occationally they will update and a spy craft of some sort will be out in the open

With the expansion of the Aurura Project- perhaps TRB3 or the more latest edition TRB 10+ could make a mention.

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Just noticed a very public SOME post by the Air Force, retiring one of its U-2 Dragon Lady rec planes. I was curious, why that was made. Maybe it is not chained up to this new drone. Maybe the airframe just had it. But still..

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If it should fly faster, wouldn't it be better to have a more arrow like wing? I would think, the design resembling the B-2/B-21, endurance and maybe height is the name of the game.

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Nice that you used an old project jet for the slide photo that I worked with years ago...that would be the Northrop-Grumman X-47B. Awesome demonstration project and the awards we got were well deserved - IMHO!

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Interesting! I was on a flight from Sacramento to San Diego looking out of the window at the ground below. Then I saw a really fast moving aircraft shaped EXACTLY like the rendering at 16:00 it was black on top and absolutely hauling ass flying eastward about 1000 - 2000 feet below us before passing under the plane i was in. i thought i had a pretty clear view of it. unfortunately i was too quick for me to whip out my phone for a picture tho i did try.

Do the Lockheed Martín Cornorant next please!!!

I worked on F-16's back in the day, which had it's challenges, but I would hate to be a maintainer on one of these - having to take a knee and bow your head all the time...

Their base might be where the RQ-170 operates as well. The area around the base is called Area 52. Same location where the F117 were stationed

Just remember the D21 . . . . launched from the back of the A12, so dodgy to launch that they launched them from the B52 but then they realised the SR71 was simply better than the D21.

The Ucav? *bf4 flashbacks intensify*

So it's kind of like the RQ ghost bat but that's a unmanned wingman the Australia is making ?...I really like the rq 170. Didn't even know there was another one then you have the global hawk and the mq4c- Triton was the replacement for the global hawk I could be wrong though

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Uh. 12:45. Satellites have been giving real time high resolution imagery and data for decades. And the U2 platform/program is roughly 70 years old.

The usaf has a rich history of admitting to to its assets once they’ve become obsolete. I love the anxt they create by toying with us

Jack Northrop would love this.

Hey Simon, it would be really cool if you narrated a full-length Attenborugh style nature documentary. If my wife's huge knockers could speak they'd have your voice. I've been watching you since ancient times. Always believed you'd make a great nature documentary. Respectfully requested. 🙏

I reckon they put everything into this, i think it might be able to fly all the way round the world.

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I swear ive seen this a few yrs ago but idk i could be wrong but it was pretty similar. The air force does have a base not far away so idk.

HA! The RQ-170 wasn't "TAKEN OVER"..... it was hand delivered! 🤣🤣🤣

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I like this powerful drone

The first approach to this secret technology appeared 100 years ago! Pitts Sky Car - the device is an ancestor of contemporary flying saucers. This umbrella plane looks funny, but it is unlikely that the American inventor spent money on making the machine just for fun. The flight principle based on generating compression under a vibrating plane is no worse than the flight principle of traditional airplanes. When the device was being created, engineers realized that it would give a higher lifting force. Step by step it turned out during the tests that the device could perform a flight if the oscillation frequency was measured in megahertz and the amplitude of oscillation in millimeters. But at that time there were no technologies to get the total power of vibration and achieve supersonic frequency. The aircraft-?building company of Chance Vought cooperated with the Naval Department. The Skimmer flying saucer that appeared after WWII was a result of the cooperation. It is believed to be an experimental variant of a propeller-?driven airplane, however it is not ruled out that Chance Vought made the model especially for running tests of the aerodynamic lift of electrokinetic engines. In the late 1940s, first flying saucers appeared in the US. They resembled telephone loudspeakers: impulse electromagnets made one or several huge membranes beat the air at a megahertz frequency. And a streamline top part of the device provided the difference of drag forces on the top and on the bottom. But still some facts pertaining to the strange device remained unclear. A flying saucer could not generate any lifting force until it threw something off the way rockets did. This is a ring whirl: it does not leave vacuum to intake a flying saucer. It is necessary to keep a saucer on the ring whirl just for a couple of microseconds, the period within which a new whirl is generated. Flying saucers with impulse electromagnets were heavy and could not cover long distances. So, Americans had to use submarines to deliver them to the Soviet shores that gave rise to stories telling that UFOs emerged from under water. Later, new devices appeared where no electromagnetic field was used to shake a propelling membrane. The bodies of such devices were made of piezoceramic, and vibration appeared thanks to the piezoelectric effect (we know that piezoelectric tweeters make the sound in electronic alarm clocks and mobile phones). The new generation apparatuses were no longer saucers but spheres, ellipsoids and other three-?dimensional figures haloed with ionized gas. The USSR got UFOs of its own in the 1960s-70s. Once, Soviet Academician Shklovsky asserted in the popular informational program Vremya (Time) that there were no other creatures besides earth dwellers in the Universe. It sounded like an official statement of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party saying that no aliens ever existed, and all reports alleging that people witnessed UFOs were misinformation. Special committees immediately started censoring newspaper publications and deleted everything that could be connected with UFO visits and aliens. At that very period Americans already had the third generation of flying saucers, dark objects with just few zones on them glowing. Those were whirl activators: the glow on the bottom to make the object fly and the glow on the side (so-?called illuminators) to make it move to the sides. Now used motor panel. They are arranged as a plasma TV screen. But the cell arresters is the tube of the rail launcher in cities. Plasma sparks popping up with great speed thousands of times per second - this creates a toroidal flux rings, which propel the apparatus.

Aurora aircraft, tr3b black manta plane, RQ-180 plane, the US are the masters of classified aircraft Legends

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The speculation that it might be able to go supersonic seems to be rather contradictory to it's shape. It has a too long wing to be able to go supersonic (drag) and be structurally stable when going supersonic.

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@13:39 Those are not Global Hawks, they are USN MQ-4C Tritons.

These are fun :)

There are far more aircraft although many are test craft. Michael Schratt does some great presentations

I've seen one of these before there's one at my local airbase

Definitely exists, I saw it flying over the Rocky Mountains when I was about 13. The military was doing some sketch shit in Colorado.

Wing span of 170 feet? That almost as large as a B-52!

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There’s footage of 2 of these flying east of Colorado Springs Colorado at extremely high altitude.

Seems like stealth could be overcome by having a satellite overhead and radar on the ground. These planes reflect radar away from the broadcaster's receivers but those waves have to go somewhere and the satellite could pick up the big hole in the sky. Also these planes may have a radar signature the size of a bird but what bird flies at 40,000 doing a couple hundred mph?

it's reminded me of the mq101 "where's the arsenal bird"

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How are things?!Omg~ so epic drone. catch ya later! 💪

“Conduct electronic warfare attacks”. (10:10). That would be one sure fire way to destroy your stealth.

6:47 i think i heard EQ Hawkeye 🤔

I swear to god , I saw one of theses over Palm Springs at night. It’s crazy looking

A-12 turned into the sr71. AF not acknowledging its existence could be because it is for another agency... Just a thought!

Lost my shxt over the white bat part lol 🤣 😂

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Friendly Advanced UAV entering the AO.

I’ve seen one in Palmdale.

*FUN FACT* Every U.S./Japanese ship equipped with the AEGIS system is able to shoot down Chinese satellites. They've had that capability for 10+ years now.

The RQ-180 has been in service. It was used in Afghanistan, along with the RQ-170 Sentinel. XQ-58 Valkyrie & X-47b were operated by the US Navy. Keep an eye out for the new MQ-25 Stingray, ghost bat, loyal wingman, Hermeus, Aurora flight sciences CRANE X-plane & Gambit drones.

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Isn't it warm there😅😅 Air-conditioning set to mega project temperatures?

Can we get a video on the Longbow Apache helicopter

too many comments to dig thru, so I have not seen it mentioned yet... but do not discount space-based weapons have replaced the SR71 & such. That has been in talks & "tests" for years, and the official creation of Space Force (despite the laughs at the name) may be a small sign of that tech being in place.

Neat

When and if the AIr Force confirms it's existence that will mean they're already planning it's successor.

Did not know the u2 was still in active service!