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Northrop Grumman

Stealthy Drone Aircraft Takes a Road Trip, Terrifies the Midwest

By Max Eddy 2012-06-13T09:35:03-04:00.

This past weekend, a mysterious object was spotted on the back of a flatbed truck off I-57, south of Champaign, Illinois. Many contacted the local news claiming to have spotted a UFO being transported by truck. Now, it has come to light that this was one of the stealthy X-47B drones on a road trip across America.

Army Places $517 Million Order on Football Field-Sized Airships to Gather Intel in Afghanistan

By Robert Quigley 2010-06-16T14:05:59-04:00.

The U.S. Army has previously expressed interest in LEMVs, giant, optionally unmanned airships with formidable intelligence-gathering capabilities and the ability to hover at 20,000 feet for up to 3 weeks; now, they've signed a $517 million contract with defense industry manufacturer Northrop Grumman to build as many as three of them, to be deployed over Afghanistan by the end of 2011.