On a quiet December day in 2011, a secret American surveillance mission ended in a way few in Washington expected. Instead of returning to its base in.

The RQ-170 looks nothing like America’s more notable drones. Instead, its flying-wing design is more reminiscent of a stealth plane’s—making it an ideal choice for contested airspace. While the RQ-170 ...

Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by the United States Air Force for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the flying-wing drone was designed to penetrate hostile airspace undetected, gathering ...

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 ...

As Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro heads to a New York court to face drug charges, the first images of a top-secret US drone sent to capture him have emerged. Footage shared online captured a US ...

The US has involved a low-visibility drone RQ-170 Sentinel, which is considered one of the most secretive devices in the arsenal of the US military, in a special operation in Venezuela. It is about ...

Let’s say you’re outside walking around when you’re hit in the head by an iPhone that falls from the sky. Just how lucky are you? Pretty darn lucky, especially if you were trying to bring it down. But ...

The sharpest minds in unmanned aerial robotics are being hauled out to scrutinize the high-resolution photographs taken by Iranian officials of what they claimed is the American drone that was lost in ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was indeed a stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel that crashed in Iran, say U.S. Air Force officials with connections to the intelligence community. Iran says it was shot down, while U.S. intelligence, ...