The first flight of the RQ-3 was on 29th March 1996. The first time it was shown on display was on 1st June 1996. The prototype crashed in the same year. The second prototype was built in 1997 and first flown in 1998. It has sensor fusion and was equipped with a Synthetic Aperture Radar. It had Stealth Abilities to be harder to track by enemy Radar.