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 last Block 10, also known as the RQ-4A, was delivered ... image quality control. The Global Hawk was initially designed by Ryan Aeronautical, which Northrop Grumman bought in 1999.

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 ...

Russia’s monitoring means spotted a US heavy drone RQ ... Global Hawk is a US strategic drone. Its takeoff mass is 15 tonnes and wingspan, 40 meters. According to the manufacturer Northrop ...