This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This entire Belgian UFO wave, however, has been disputed by skeptics. During these incidents, two Belgian F-16s attempted to intercept the objects (getting a successful missile lock at two occasions) only to be outmaneuvered a key conclusion of the Project Condign report was that no attempt should be made on the part of civilian or RAF Air Defence aircraft to outmaneuver these objects except to place them astern to mitigate the risk of collision. These objects are often described as having pulsing colored lights that appear at each corner of the triangle.īlack triangle UFOs have been found to be visible to radar, as was the case with the famous Belgian UFO wave. Reports generally describe this class of UFOs as large, silent, black triangular objects hovering or slowly cruising at low altitudes over cities and highways. Media reports of black triangles originally came from the United States and United Kingdom. The objects may or may not be related to the rumored USAF Aurora aircraft developmental program.

The Tier III Minus program that resulted in the unsuccessful Lockheed Martin RQ-3 DarkStar was a scaled-down derivative of the original Tier III.īlack triangles are a class of Unidentified Flying Object, with certain common features which have reportedly been observed during the 20th and 21st centuries. It is, therefore possible that TR-3 is merely a corruption of Tier III, a name given to a cancelled large reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying wing designed around the time of alleged sightings of the Black Manta, circa 1988–1990.

It is clearly not a continuation of the R-for-Reconnaissance series, since ER-2 (NASA designation for U-2 aircraft modified for Earth science studies) stood for 'Earth Resources', not 'Electronic Reconnaissance'. How the TR-3B designation came up in publications is unclear. The TR-3B was claimed to have been manufactured by Northrop. It was alleged to have been used in the Gulf War to provide laser designation for Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk bombers, for targeting to use with laser-guided bombs. The TR-3B IS said to be a subsonic stealth spy plane with a flying wing design.

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