{"id":159010,"date":"2024-12-18T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/rq-170-sentinel-essential-us-stealth-reconnaissance\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T16:00:17","slug":"what-makes-the-rq-170-sentinel-essential-for-us-stealth-reconnaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=159010","title":{"rendered":"What Makes the RQ-170 Sentinel Essential for US Stealth Reconnaissance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2030200\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/mysterious-wraith-secretive-us-rq-170-sentinel\/\" >RQ-170 Stentinal &#8220;Wraith&#8221; is a large US stealthy flying wing spy drone about which little is known<\/a><\/span>. The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136398\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> has a history of black project aircraft whose existence stayed secret for many years (the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59688\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>SR-71<\/span><\/span> Blackbird and the F-117 Nighthawk being the most famous examples). The RQ-170 is not the only secret-ish spy drone the US has; it is also known to have the Northrop Grumman RQ-180 (although, again, little is known about it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RQ-170 is one of the valuable ISR capabilities of the US Air Force able to collect live videos feeds of points of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4160,567,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-drones","category-guides","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159011,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159010\/revisions\/159011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}