Probably to do with the materials used in its construction. don’t want to interfere with the RAM (radar attenuating materials). Would also hazard a guess it’s grey but under sodium lighting in a hanger somewhere.
Because people on the ground would never see it from that side? If a plane were above it and looking down on it maybe it blends in better in this colour?
Edit: Hmm, just seen it’s yellow all over, that’s my idea out the window.
It would be pretty impressive and majorly embarrassing for the US if, from what it said on the BBC, that the Iranians managed to take over and land the drone. It does appear, from what we can see, fairly undamaged.
An actual RQ-170 in Kandahar.
The colour really does look odd. UAV’s are, like all US combat jets, painted in Air Superiority Grey, because it’s a low contrast colour that blends well with haze and cloud. There’s no need to use any kind of camo colour. We painted our jets pink during the first Gulf war, because they were flying low level missions, and pink is the best colour against sand.
That RQ-170 looks a bit fishy, the wings are taped on, and there’s a wierd mesh across the jet intake, plus there are no visible markings. The yanks aircraft all have national markings in a darker shade of grey, like ours do, and other nations using AS Grey, Canadians for example.
They might have been better off flying these:
Self destruct is a nice plan, but what happens if you find a way to interrupt comms via satellite (dazzling it perhaps)? You’d then have a lot of hardware thinking it had lost contact and self destructing…
Also, _if_ it was hacked, it hadn’t lost comms with mother. It just had a new mother.
Self destruct is a nice plan, but what happens if you find a way to interrupt comms via satellite (dazzling it perhaps)? You’d then have a lot of hardware thinking it had lost contact and self destructing…
Also, _if_ it was hacked, it hadn’t lost comms with mother. It just had a new mother.
The rq45 (globalhawk)is completely autonomous.These rq170 may also feature an completely autonomous system as much as, its 2nd generation and obsolete already.
Thats the second one the iranians stole this year though….