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26. The number 170 is derived from Lockheed Martin's in-house designation P-170.
Sounds like a newer RQ-170. How they go from 170 back to 73 though. . .
Since it's XRQ-73, could also be related to CCA as well.
So: eXperimental Really Quiet - 73. Yep - that's how designations work now.It’s not. It’s a quiet, hybrid x-plane.
So: eXperimental Really Quiet - 73. Yep - that's how designations work now.
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So was X-302.X-220 was taken.
The article lays out the lineage -- it's related to Great Horned Owl and XRQ-72, an experimental demonstrator that might have led to a covert surveillance asset. Very much not in the same class as the CCAs.
Great Horned Owl - an IARPA program - was XRQ-72.They were not separate things.
If acoustic signature optimization was the chief design goal for implementing this hybrid ducted fan technology, that would imply a relatively low altitude flight mission profile?with their acoustic signature. That is the main goal here,
I'll bet one of the operational versions gets that art!snark:
A few dabs of paint and the nose-job's a Kilroy...
Literally, 'Kilroy Was Here, But You didn't Notice' ??
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It would still be SHEPHERD pie, not Shepard, which is a surname.Just for the hell of it, could be Shepard Pie, someone was hungry during the naming meeting or it's the actual program code name, Project Shepard Pie. Since this is a hybrid wing, could it be plant-based? Like my Wife always says, plant-based, its made at the plant.
Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft DemonstrationIs "Shepard" supposed to be an acronym? A tribute to an eponymous pilot?
I would think it comes from an Acronym. For example, Hybrid Electrical Propulsion could be the central initials of the S.H.E.P.A.R.D program.
For example, Small Hybrid Electrical Propulsion Autonomous Recon Drone for something that would put the focus on HEP but also AI.
Oops, bad grammar and spelling.It would still be SHEPHERD pie, not Shepard, which is a surname.