Despite their key role in Washington's ongoing shadow wars in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, the US Air Force has long been resistant to the idea of utilizing unmanned aerial drones in an honest-to-goodness air war. Earlier this year it announced plans to scale back its drone fleets significantly, and for good reason — faced with any kind of human resistance from a sufficiently funded military, the fact is drones still don't stand a chance. But new evidence reported on Aviation Week suggests that the Air Force may instead be developing at least two new kinds of remote-control stealth planes in secret.
Bill Sweetman reports that Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman are behind the new drones, which include a "Next Generation" stealth...
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