loading . . . What to Know About the RQ-170 Drone, Venezuela, and Stealthy ISR When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force Gen. Dan Caine described the 150 aircraft used in Operation Absolute Resolve, the mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he referenced many by name, including the F-35 and F-22 fighters and B-1 bomber. Not specified, however, were “remotely piloted drones,” among them a secretive aircraft spotted and photographed returning to Puerto Rico after the mission: the RQ-170 Sentinel, which lit up the Internet with curiosity after a local aviation enthusiast posted video of the aircraft in the early morning sky on Jan. 3.
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