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Could an unmanned U-2 challenge the Global Hawk drone?
For the US Air Force, the dominance of drones has been bad news for some ... development cost and $131-million unit cost of the Global Hawk. According to Foxtrot Alpha, for the price, Lockheed ...
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The RQ-4 Global Hawk is important, but not for the reasons you'd think
With $10 billion in development costs, the Global Hawk UAV has been an expensive proposition for the US Air Force over the course of its 15-year life. The huge UAV – its wingspan is nearly 30 ...
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RQ-4 Global Hawk
The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system with an integrated sensor suite that provides intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, capability ...
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After years of delays, NATO receives US-made spy drones
NATO will receive its second US-made Global Hawk drone on Thursday (19 December) and aims to have all five unmanned aircraft of its $1.5 billion surveillance system operational in 2022 ...
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Japanese defense officials get serious on drones
Currently, the Self-Defense Forces only possess US RQ-4 "Global Hawk" drones for surveillance ... The Defense Ministry's budget request for fiscal 2023 comes in at a record 5.6 trillion yen ...
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US Global Hawk drone patrols Black Sea airspace near Crimea
MOSCOW, June 4. /TASS/. US strategic RQ-4B Global Hawk scout drone patrols Black Sea airspace near Crimea, according to Flightradar24.com portal. It is flying towards the southern coast of the ...