USAF confirms existence of new stealth UAV

[GTX]

This is another one of those "throw off the public with a non-nonsensical designation" things (See "F-117").

Nah!  Simply dyslexic Lockheed.Pentagon staff who can't count.

Regards,

Greg

[jcf]

I suppose its possible the use of the RQ-170 designator may have been intentional disinformation.
Perhaps it was intended to make anyone who intercepted communications referring to the machine
think it was just a recce variant of the MQM-170A Outlaw US Army training drone.
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-170.html

U.S. Unmanned Military Aerospace Vehicles
http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/missiles.html#_Missiles