İ found it on Google earth(The photo is old, perhaps it has been updated.)

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dadmantalking@reddit

I have access to regularly updated aerial images at work. Looks like it was still there on 5/25/2022 and gone on 2/9/2023.

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fraxinous@reddit

Can you see Groom Lake etc? How does that work?

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It's from a company called NearMap. My employer bus their services for the purpose of getting good imagery for our GIS maps. They do flights with a camera plane. It's 1x a year in small population centers and 3-4x a year in large population centers. I'm fairly certain they aren't flying over groom lake.

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fraxinous@reddit

Ahh damm lol thought it might be one of the bettet private satilites out there.

Thanks for insightful response all the same!

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user_uno@reddit

Someone bumped the "stealth mode" or "clocking device on" switch. So long as they didn't bump the anti-gravity button, it is still there.

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cbj2112@reddit

Whattaburger corporate jet

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Aggrophobic84@reddit

iirc it is a low observable F-18 concept obviously minus wings

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7stroke@reddit

Pretty easy to observe tho

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asmallercat@reddit

Maybe a large scale (or even full size model?) for radar testing?

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Candid_Duck9386@reddit

that's exactly what it is, I found this photo of it on facebook.

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Ragnarok_Stravius@reddit

I know that the Hornet is a Navy plane, but I think putting a boat nose on it is a bit too much...

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Erikrtheread@reddit

Reminds me of the x-32

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404-skill_not_found@reddit

It’s no less wild at ground level!

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NuclearWasteland@reddit

Cool boat tho.

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404-skill_not_found@reddit

IKR!

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quellish@reddit

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/mcdonnnell-douglas-f-18a-d-legacy-hornet.6010/page-2#post-488541

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Euphoric_Ad_9136@reddit

No wings? Yes. But it still looks like it wants to fly :D

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FIMD_@reddit

Babe, New Batmobile just dropped

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geekwonk@reddit

how fun would it be to have the job of randomly wheeling out testbed mockups at the boneyard just to fuck with whoever’s monitoring the place for intel

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user_uno@reddit

Or bring one home to put in the drive overnight. Explain to the HOA it is not a camper and it has no commercial business markings on it. Then tow it away in the night and act like people are crazy thinking they saw "something" in the drive.

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Tomcat115@reddit

It kind of reminds of the Retaliator from Star Citizen.

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BadBananaDetective@reddit

It’s an RCS test article for the EA-18G Growler.

Fairly late in the Growler programme the Navy became concerned that the old AN/ALQ-99 jammer pods would damage the electronics in the aft fuselage of the Super Hornet. To alleviate these concerns, Boeing wanted to see whether they could add RF shielding to the outside of the fuselage without wrecking the aircraft’s RCS profile.

This test article was built to evaluate that. It looks ‘stealthy’ because the parts of the airframe that weren’t modified were judged not relevant to the test and were covered with low-return shapes.

The test article was retained it case it was required for the Next Generation Jammer program.

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Joe2_0@reddit

It was an RCS model used to validate changes to the F/A-18E’s aft end.

No it’s not some Stealth Hornet.

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hutch_man0@reddit

Coordinates?

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Inevitable-Dark5537@reddit

Lower left of the image

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hutch_man0@reddit

32.15 N, 110.84 W

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FletcherCommaIrwin@reddit

🤘 Plane(ly), that fuselage rocks. 🤘

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Have_Donut@reddit

It’s most likely the F/A-18 equivalent of the F-15SE Silent Eagle. A reworking of the whole plane to make it more stealthy and modern while being producible on the existing production line. These programs didn’t really work out since all they really have to offer is shorter development time while the aircraft ends up being less capable and more expensive than say an F-35.

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old_flying_fart@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/comments/18foeg7/found_at_amarc_in_arizona_what_the_heck_is_it/