Potential RQ-180 “Great White Bat” stealth UAV or B-21 Raider stealth bomber sighting over Tooele Valley, Utah, yesterday by X user @/clinty_y.
Seen one going east yesterday over the Tooele valley pic.twitter.com/5ad8cdITJC
— Clint Young (@clinty_y) March 20, 2024
While the existence of the platform has not been officially confirmed by the United States military, there have been three other sightings of the RQ-180 in recent years. In 2021 video, however, the US Air Force Profession of Arms Center of Excellence hinted at such an aircraft by stating that “the days of balloons and biplanes have been replaced by white bats.”
NEW- The Air Force’s new nuclear stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider, has taken its first test flight https://t.co/nngNJH2EEK pic.twitter.com/41ram5dcYY
— Overton (@OvertonLive) November 10, 2023
This could also be a B-21 Raider 6th-gen long range stealth bomber. The aircraft was unveiled in November 2022 and successfully completed its first test flight in November 2023. The United States Air Force is expected to order 100 airframes to replace B-1 Lancet and B-2 Spirit bombers, which will be delivered in the “mid-2020s.”
