Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4B Block 30 Global Hawk, with imagery and signals intelligence collection capabilities, was utilised by the United States Air Force during Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) exercises for the United States European Command.
Global Hawk plays a significant role in autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance systems in support of numerous missions.
Global Hawk is the premier autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance ISR platform for the U.S. Air Force and global partners. No other system provides a better combination of range, endurance and payload capacity, as demonstrated by the U.S. Air Force’s continuous use of Global Hawk to collect intelligence and deter regional threats for the past two decades.
To meet future operational needs, Global Hawk can extend and connect beyond its traditional strategic ISR mission and serve as an airborne network edge node, providing persistent communications relay and secure processing without putting personnel in harm’s way. These capabilities will be critical to helping realise the Department of Defense’s Joint-All Domain Command and Control vision.
“Global Hawk is critical today and indispensable tomorrow as we continue to invest in new capabilities to improve system flexibility, resilience and responsiveness,” said Leslie Smith, Vice President, Global Hawk, Northrop Grumman. “We are adopting proven advancements in technology and infrastructure to provide modernized cockpits, dynamic mission rerouting, OMS compliant payload computing, universal payload adapters and IP-based communications.”
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