This is America’s Biggest UAV – Meet the RQ-4 GLOBAL HAWK

This is America’s Biggest UAV – Meet the RQ-4 GLOBAL HAWK



The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft with an integrated sensor suite that provides global all-weather, day or night intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability.

Northrop Grumman’s GLOBAL HAWK is one of, if not the world’s premier surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned aircraft system—and the Air Force’s go-to eye in the sky.

In the RQ-4 name, the “R” is the Department of Defense designation for Reconnaissance and “Q” means unmanned aircraft system. The “4” refers to the series of purpose-built remotely piloted aircraft systems.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Meet the RQ-4 Global Hawk
02:00 MQ-4C Triton Drone for the U.S. Navy
02:40 Why the USAF Loves the Global Hawk
04:47 Global Hawk Ground-based Command and Control
06:07 A HAWK With Global Reach
07:19 Global Hawk Retirement

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Originally published at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqKeO3THXtk

This story originally appeared at Military - USA DAILY NEWS 24