The RQ-170 is a low-observable, unmanned ISR aircraft. Operated by the US Air Force, the RQ-170 was designed specifically to penetrate defended airspace and conduct covert surveillance—exactly the ...

An American stealth drone once helped watch Osama bin Laden die in Abbottabad, and now one of its Iranian offspring has been blown to pieces under a U.S. crosshair, a small but telling snapshot of how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though it does not explicitly mention Russian forces in Ukraine or Russia proper as the targets of these flights, an accompanying ...

Lockheed Martin has unusually confirmed that its highly secretive RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle played a role in a recent U.S. military operation in Venezuela. This confirmation represents ...

The United States Air Force has been flying the RQ-170 Sentinel over combat zones since 2005, but details about this secretive aircraft are still rather sparse. Developed by the legendary Skunk Works ...

A video shared by CENTCOM shows the destruction of an Iranian clone of the RQ-170 Sentinel, which was reverse-engineered after crashing in Iran 15 years ago. An Iranian clone of the secretive U.S.

The first clear pictures of the center-line reconnaissance bay on Lockheed Martin’s RQ-170 Sentinel show that the small unmanned aircraft was carrying sensor balls mounted in an internal compartment ...

In the months preceding the May 2 raid, the CIA reportedly flew dozens of missions with high-altitude unmanned stealth aircraft over the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed to obtain ...

Iran said Dec. 4 that it shot down a U.S. high-altitude, RQ-170 stealth unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on its eastern border, but U.S. officials disputed the claim, stating that the lost craft instead ...

At least one of the US Air Force's most secretive drones, the RQ-170 Sentinel, may have supported the US operation on January 3 that saw the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife ...