Talk:Northrop Grumman RQ-180

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Breaking news at Area 51[edit]

From articles that link to Aviation Week:
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_12_06_2013_p0-643783.xml&p=1
http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_12_06_2013_p0-643786.xml (Historical perspective)

The news breaking in India was within the last hour; most others, within the last 24 hrs. — Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 10:58, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

google says that its introduction is 2013..[edit]

124.244.120.42 (talk) 09:28, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That tells us nothing. We need an actual citation from a reliable published source. BilCat (talk) 10:55, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why no photo of it, even though it's available?[edit]

RQ-180 photo from CIA ops in the Philippines has long been on the net. CIA being a US federal gov't branch and taxpayer funded, the photo is fair game:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F62vtuajlzkzb1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D960%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D2689958399231ea10ff5a1c417295079398c0d60 188.143.7.107 (talk) 12:35, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The photo itself has to be public domain, which doesn't appear to be the case here. It is irrelevant that the plane was government funded. There is potentially a case for fair use. Schierbecker (talk) 15:23, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is also the issue that the image has never officially been confirmed to be of the RQ-180, only speculated to be. - ZLEA _T\^C 19:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]