Saturday 7 November 2020

This Image,

was taken when,


 photographer and actor Rob Kolinsky looked at the sky as the object flew over his house, but what is it? Suspiciously, the image was taken down soon after it was posted, and here is the good news, the image has been archived and reposted on Twitter, the photo depicts a flying wing-shaped aircraft, as Popular Mechanics details:

According to Aviation Week & Space Technology, the aircraft “was flying in a racetrack pattern at an estimated altitude of 20,000 [feet].”
The mystery aircraft, as Kolinsky points out, does indeed look like the new B-21 Raider bomber. The B-21 Raider is a new strategic bomber under development by Northrop Grumman.
The U.S. Military currently operates the RQ-4 Global Hawk for high-altitude reconnaissance missions, but the plane lacks the stealth to allow it to operate near modern air defenses. In June 2019, Iran—not exactly a giant in the world of air defense—shot down an RQ-4 in the Strait of Hormuz. It was a wakeup call for a Pentagon that relies on persistent surveillance of adversaries as an early warning system.

the Air Force has never publicly acknowledged the RQ-180’s existence, note to air force, if you want to keep something secret, do not fly it over a photographers house!


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