Russia's stealth drone would serve in a “Loyal Wingman” capacity, taking the lead ahead of manned fighter jets in contested environments, gathering and relaying battle-space information to pilots, and physically protecting them by absorbing incoming enemy air-to-air or surface-to-air missiles.
Despite what the ‘Storm Area 51’ crowd tried to make everyone believe, the reason why its security is ultra-tight to the point of ‘shoot to kill’ for anyone pushing a toe past a gate or under a fence is that top secret advanced aircraft are being tested there. Sure, it would be more exciting to. Read more »
The DarkStar was a fully autonomous platform that could take off, fly to its target, transmit information, return and land without any human intervention.