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 ...

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 ...

That's not to say the U-2's will be exclusively unmanned aircraft, but rather that the Air Force will have the option flying them either remotely or with an actual human at the controls. The cost ...

but it was successfully implemented with the advent of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). One of the most famous models is also one of the best: the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk. The Global ...

Russian Analyst Claims MiG-31s Could Down U.S. Global Hawk Drones A Russian military analyst has downplayed the capabilities of the RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial system (UAS), just days after ...

Operating from the Global Hawk Operations Center East (GHOCE) at Wallops, the pilots are controlling the unmanned aircraft as it flies over a tropical weather system just to the south of the Cape ...