HALE: High-altitude aspirations
Published: Tue Mar 21st, 2006Source: www.flightglobal.com
The opportunity for technological leapfrogging has seen Japan, South Korea and Singapore explore at least three sophisticated concepts for high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) systems over the past five years. However, all three nations have recently sought to buy the US Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, potentially paving the way for bilateral or even a multinational enhancement effort on that system.While initial South Korean concepts were based on a high-altitude autonomous airship aimed at the civil marketplace, that nation now plans to fly a domestically developed military medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAV prototype in 2007-8. Total proposed funding is put at $440 million, with initial spending starting this year (Flight International ,1-7 November 2005).
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