Photos of Global Hawk - High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)


Aircraft:
Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Block 20 Global Hawk HALE UAV
Event:
Location:
RAF Fairford (FFD/EGVA), United Kingdom
Date:
18 - 19 July 2009
Replica of Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Block 20 Global Hawk HALE UAV (04-2015), NATO AGS (Alliance Ground Surveillance)
HALE: High Altitude Long Endurance
UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Note:
On 22 March 2008 the real RQ-4B Global Hawk #04-2015 set an endurance record for a full-scale, operational unmanned aircraft when it completed a flight of 33 hours and 6 minutes. During this flight, the aircraft flew at altitudes exceeding 60,000 feet over Edwards AFB, California.
(Source: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base News)

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Aircraft:
Euro Hawk - High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Event:
ILA 2006 (Berlin Airshow)
Location:
Berlin-Schoenefeld Airport (SXF / EDDB), Berlin, Germany
Date:
16 - 21 May 2006
Euro Hawk - High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), EuroHawk GmbH, Germany

EuroHawk GmbH is a joint venture company formed by EADS and Northrop Grumman Corporation.
The Euro Hawk is a Northrop Grumman-produced RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk derivative equipped with a new SIGINT mission system developed by EADS. The German Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded a EUR430 million contract to EuroHawk GmbH for the development, test and support of the Euro Hawk system on 31 January 2007. Delivery of the first demonstrator is scheduled for 2010. Planned delivery of the following four UAVs is scheduled between 2011 and 2014. The Euro Hawk systems will replace the fleet of Breguet Atlantic aircraft, which has been in service since 1972.

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Aircraft:
Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk
Event:
Location:
Edwards AFB, Rosamond, CA, USA
Date:
25 - 26 October 2003
Northrop Grumman RQ-4A Global Hawk - High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Aerial Reconnaissance System (00-2006/ED), 452nd Flight Test Squadron (452 FLTS), 412th Test Wing (412 TW), United States Air Force (USAF), Edwards AFB, CA


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