DARPA's XRQ-73: The US Military's Latest Stealthy Spy Drone

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has recently initiated a project to develop a new quiet spy aircraft. As part of DARPA’s latest X-plane program, the aircraft, designated XRQ-73, is engineered for intelligence-gathering missions and features an advanced quiet propulsion system.
Also known by its program name, Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiR Demonstration (SHEPARD), the XRQ-73 is being developed by Northrop Grumman and its subsidiary, Scaled Composites.
As the Pentagon’s newest experimental plane, what makes the XRQ-73’s hybrid-electric propulsion system a significant advancement in military aviation?
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