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 ...

The Global Hawk UAV flies over Hurricane Karl to reveal a hot tower. Red shows reflectivity that is 12 km from the surface, orange is 10 km, yellow is 7.5 km, green is 6 km, and blue is under 6 km ...

Northrop Grumman completed the maiden flight of Japan's second RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV in 2021, expanding Japan's surveillance capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region. This milestone followed the ...

Brig. Gen. Patrick Costello said the US military is "very closely" watching the new drones, likely referring to UAVs unveiled in July 2023.

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 ...

In fact, it was the very first Global Hawk, produced in 1998 as a demonstrator to show the capabilities of the unmanned military airplane. Originally developed to provide field commanders with ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen flight trials of the new Ilyushin Il-76MD airborne warning and control system ...

The Collier Trophy for the year 2000 has been bestowed on Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), one of a new class of aircraft designed to carry out military missions ...

Images taken above the Panghyon airbase show the construction of large hangars and new designs of unmanned aerial vehicles ... to the American RQ-4 Global Hawk drone. First unveiled at the ...

They are only the most recent and advanced installments in a century-old history of unmanned warfare and surveillance from the skies. Click on the UAV icons below to learn more about the Predator ...

The United States will send two F-22 Raptor fighters and one Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle to Korea next month for the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition 2015 (Seoul ADEX ...