Purpose
The HAVE Blue project was top
secret, and stealth technology "did not officially exist" to the
general public. The entire project was to remain in complete
secrecy, and no information about it was allowed to be shared outside of the
members in the development team in hopes of keeping the technology secret from
the Soviet Union and other enemies. On November 1st, 1975, Lockheed
was awarded a US 1.5 million dollar contract by DARPA to develop an aircraft
that used the low radar cross section design, and would be called the
Experimental Survival Test bed, or XST. Skunk Works got started right away on
the project using the flat panel design as the concept behind the development.
With the entire project developed under complete secrecy, the general public
does not know exactly when the Nighthawk was first put into active service.
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