Global Hawk UAV

Two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft have flown in close formation at distances as close as 30 feet (9 m) for the first time as part of a DARPA program to give autonomous aircraft aerial refueling capabilities.

Northrop Grumman has announced that it will send a variant of the Global Hawk UAS into Arctic skies.

Northrop Grumman's Block 40 Global Hawk has new eyes.

The Global Hawk Pacific Program aims to study atmospheric conditions over the Pacific and Arctic oceans.

The first of the next generation of Northrop Grumman’s Block 40 configuration RQ-4 Global Hawk has successfully taken to the air for the first time with a flight lasting around two hours.

Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk has successfully completed a flight lasting 33.1 hours at altitudes up to 60,000 - a record for a full-scale, operational unmanned aircraft.

November 11, 2005 The Global Hawk UAV was still in its development stages when the needs of the war in Afghanistan saw it pressed into service. Since then, Gl