[runjake]

We would occasionally pull stunts like this for adversary satellites in the old days. I've never seen a transparent scoot-n-hide, though. And if we had an aircraft break down, we have equipment on base that could move it to a hangar in pretty much any condition -- even crashed.

We were always really sensitive to adversary satellite schedules and this would not happen for 5 minutes, let alone a few days.

My hunch is that the transparent scoot-n-hide is a custom job, the aircraft is real, and this was a show for some adversary.

As for what type of aircraft it is? Can't really tell. I could see it being anything from an F-16XL to NGAD to flat pieces of painted plywood cut out into shapes (it's been done before).

[riskneutral]

> this was a show for some adversary

Maybe it's a captured enemy aircraft.

[runjake]

Possible, but it would probably be sitting in another area of base (hint: up north of there).

[iSnow]

But why even have the mobile hangar without a tarp if you want to show off your gear? Just land it and let it sit on the runway for a day or two.

[runjake]

Potential reason: the skin uses Radar-Absorbent Material, which is sensitive to weather and sun. Or they actually have people working on it and they don't want too cook in the sun and aircraft wind/dust/Foreign Object Damage (FOD). Who knows.