@fighter.pilots: The REAL Alien-looking aircraft tested at AREA 51?! #yf118g #usmilitary #usairforce #aircraft #aviation

Caleb Fleming :

Ironically, it only had a top speed of 299 mph and a service ceiling of 20,000ft. It used off the shelf parts with no fly by wire. It was built solely as a tested for new stealth technology. There's even speculation that they used it to test active camouflage.

scottdaddyramboclark :

alien name 🤔 isn't bird of prey referring to a raptor or a falcon simple thinking and shape is like a bird of prey 🤔

cowboyslament205 :

intake and exhaust design indicate endurance, not speed.

Chicken Daddy 🥓 :

"it draws its name directly from the Klingon bird of prey from Star Trek" nerds know where the bird of prey came from [Tears of joy] it was a stolen romulan tech, thus the name comes from the ROMULAN bird of prey

Tank Santos :

Wow 1992 , imagine what the US Air force has on the works now that we will only know about 20 years from now . That’s insane . It makes sense because if I am not mistaken the F-22 Raptor was on the works in the late 80’s

Joseph Foran :

“Without taxpayer dollars” is a bit… off. It was paid for with profits made on other aircraft, engines, etc that all have varying level of taxpayer dollars attached.

John Wayne :

At $62 million it wasn't being built to be a manned aircraft the price would be 10x that. This test model was manned but most likely built for drone tech.

Michael Krouse :

I lov being an American 🇺🇸

dan :

So was it supposed to be a fighter? A bomber or surveillance

Rino :

It looks like the old Star Fox game

RJ Fraire :

Clint aungon :

oh

James Bryan chancey :

that right there is beautiful but there's a problem it's f****** useless it's only for high speed it couldn't do nothing except for blow up whatever it's aiming for just like a damn rocket or missile it's it's pointless

Larryxlife :

The USA must be gearing up for war soob

James Bryan chancey :

to top it off no matter who paid for it hopefully not taxpayers it's a waste of f****** money f22 have be the only jet I would support

The Gent :

I wonder where Boeing got all the money for it to fund the entire development of this thing.

nhutson123 :

its amazing how cheap they worked on their dime... on our money the same work costs billions.[Snicker]

danfischer102 :

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ronaldkutara :

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jake_rocks1 :

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