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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

An effort to make Black Hawk helicopters function as optionally unmanned aircraft passed a major threshold last week, Defense One reports citing an Army testing official. The test featured an ...