----- HISTORICAL RECORD -----

RQ-3A Darkstar UAV

Country of Origin: USA

description

The Lockheed Martin/Boeing Tier III- (Three Minus) RQ-3A Darkstar was a very-low-observable (VLO) flying-wing shaped unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The program was cancelled in February 1999 due to development problems and budget cuts.

Darkstar was designed to loiter undetected over a target area for up to eight hours. Rather than endurance and payload, as in the Tier II+ Global Hawk design, the Darkstar's design stressed stealth. Its mission was to penetrate aggressively...

Please log in to continue reading.

Not yet a subscriber? Take a free trial.

Military Periscope gives you easy-to-use, integrated, open-source intelligence on…

  • More than 7,500 weapons systems and platforms
  • Nearly every country's armed forces
  • Militant organizations
laptop image

Try Military Periscope free for seven days