A U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk assigned to the 36th Wing from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, lands at the Avalon International Airport in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, March 1, 2019.

The RQ-4 Global Hawk, the backbone of the United States unmanned airpower during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has left the United States Air Force’s Beale Air Force Base.

The RQ-4 Global Hawk is important, but not for the reasons you'd think With $10 billion in development costs, the Global Hawk UAV has been an expensive proposition for the US Air Force over the ...

Lockheed’s vaunted Skunk Works is setting its sights on developing a successor to its venerable U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane and Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance ...

The first Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk drone for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force has carried out its maiden flight. On Apr. 15, 2021, the first RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle ...

An RQ-4 Global Hawk assigned to the 452nd Flight Test Squadron flies in the skies above Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., May 23. (Bryce Bennett/U.S. Air Force) ...

RQ-4 Global Hawk tracked during its mission near Crimea and over Ukraine on Jul. 20, 2017. The U.S. Air Force Global Hawk UAS are among the assets that can be regularly tracked online. (Screenshot ...

So, the Pentagon still isn't happy with Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk drone. Just this week a report from the DoD's top weapons tester emerged saying the high altitude spy jet is "not ...

The 18th Reconnaissance Squadron -- newest operators of the spiffy Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk drone -- offered me total access during a visit last week. I was impressed with the bird before ...

The RQ-4 Global Hawk — the first unmanned aircraft to land at Robins or any other Air Force air logistics complex — flew in by remote control the early morning of May 24.

August 7, 2022: The jet propelled RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV was the first large jet powered UAV to enter service and did so over Afghanistan three years after its first flight in 1998 while still ...

Global Hawk also got to fly under difficult conditions, something an aircraft still being developed would not do. In 2008, an RQ-4A Global Hawk made the first non-stop crossing of the Pacific, flying ...