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 ...

Key point: The steady addition of new missions over the Sentinel’s roughly 15-year existence represents a strong vote of confidence on the part of the Air Force in the stealth drone’s usefulness. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone landed intact in Iran in 2011, sparking global drone rivalry Iran claimed to capture the drone via electronic warfare, while the US cited technical malfunction ...

Lockheed Martin has confirmed that the RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone operated in support of the recent mission to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. This revelation was made by Jim Taiclet, CEO ...

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 ...

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, ...