A stealthy D-21 Tagboard drone is mounted to an M-21 mother ship–the combination then becoming the MD-21. A B-52 was later used as a D-21 launch platform after a drone and M-21 were lost in a catastrophic midair collision in 1966.
Credit: Merlin/Lockheed
COLORADO SPRINGS—New details of the U.S. Air Force’s secretive RQ-180 uncrewed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) program are among a host of revelations in a newly published book: Dreamland – The Secret History of Area 51. Written by aerospace historian Peter Merlin, the book sets...
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