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The article is from 2016. A lot has changed since then..

How many stealthy UCAVs are flying publicly? As far as I'm aware the answer is still 0. (Well, 1 if you count the XQ-58 Valkyrie [0], which has flown twice)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratos_XQ-58_Valkyrie

I was under the impression that there are a few stealth UAVs being operated currently.The Sentinel comes to mind and I think both China and Russia have working prototypes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentine...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Okhotnik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASC_Rainbow#CH-7

The RQ-170 is a stealth UAV, but not a UCAV - it's unarmed. The other two aren't US, and so are more 'worrying' than 'reassuring' when it comes to figuring out where the US's stealth UCAVs are.

The article speaks to the RQ-170, introduced 9 years before the article and is one of your links. The idea is that the Air Force abruptly pulled out of a join effort with the Navy and didn’t seem to have an alternative. What happened? Does the AF have something else that is not public or did the manned aircraft program see UCAV as threat to eliminate?

And you are not going to tell us about it or give us any links to read. But you think we still should believe you.

All that makes me think that things actually have not changed, but you don't want to admit it, and so you are claiming they have changed. But perhaps I am mistaken about that.

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