RQ-4 Global Hawk photos (35 in total)
Global Hawk flies first Beale ACC sortie
Beale's newly-arrived RQ-4 Global Hawk Remotely Piloted Aircraft took off from Beale Tuesday for its first operational Air Combat Command flight Photo by John Schwab
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Global Hawk arrives @ Beale
Beale’s second RQ-4 Global Hawk aircraft was delivered to the base Nov. 3. The Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle provides Air Force and joint battlefield commanders near-real-time, high-resolution, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery to fight the Global War on Terror.U.S. Air Force photo by John Schwab
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Global Hawk Digital Maintenance
Senior Airman Gordon Casselman checks the digital maintenance logs on a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle following a mission Oct. 3 at a deployed location in Southwest Asia.Source: US Air Force
Proteus Test Flight
A Proteus aircraft flies over Southern California Sept. 30 carrying the Global Hawk variant of the new, Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program radar. This is the first flight test of the state-of-the-art radar system, which will be incorporated onto the Global Hawk and, in a larger configuration, onto a wide-body technology demonstrator. The Proteus is a high-altitude aircraft similar in size to Global Hawk.Source: Northrop Grumman
Global Hawk Block 30
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The Benefield Anechoic Facility houses the next-generation Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aerial vehicle July 17 during a two week mitigation treatment test on the aircraft's fuselage. Air Force photo by Chad Bellay
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RQ-4B Global Hawk
PALMDALE, Calif. — The first production version of the new RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance system was unveiled Aug. 25 in Palmdale, Calif. The Global Hawk program is managed by the 303rd Aeronautical Systems Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The Northrop Grumman-built Block 20 RQ-4 represents a significant increase in capability over the Block 10 configuration—it carries up to 3,000 pounds of internal payload and operates with two-and-a-half times the power of its predecessor. The new RQ-4 was flight tested at Edwards AFB, Calif., and will be delivered to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, Calif. It is the 17th Global Hawk air vehicle to be built.Source: US Air Force
An RQ-4A
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An RQ-4 with Lightning in the background
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RQ-4 Block 20
Northrop Grumman Corporation rolled out the first production version of the new RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance system in a ceremony today at the company's Antelope Valley Manufacturing Center in Palmdale.Source: US Air Force
RQ-4 Global Hawk
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