Photographer Julian Elnasser spotted the two aircraft over Death Valley earlier this year. The secretive RAT55 NT-43A is thought to be almost exclusively used to test the airborne radar signatures of stealth aircraft.

While this is not the first time the two aircraft types have been spotted or reported operating alongside each other, with much of RAT55’s operations remaining a mystery, any look that we do get of the aircraft in use becomes quite interesting.

Photographer Julian Elnasser described his RAT55 sighting to The Aviationist:

“I was staying in Las Vegas and saw it was out flying from Groom towards the R-2508. So I decided to try my luck and hurry on out to Death Valley near Furnace Creek. Approaching the town I saw the 2 and immediately pulled over, they were pretty low. Afte

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