With $10 billion in development costs, the Global Hawk UAV has been an expensive proposition ... that significance isn't necessarily due to its reconnaissance abilities. FA's Tyler Rogoway got ...

Northrop Grumman completed the maiden flight of Japan's second RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV in 2021, expanding Japan's surveillance capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region. This milestone followed the ...

The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system with an integrated sensor suite that provides intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, capability ...

They are only the most recent and advanced installments in a century-old history of unmanned warfare and surveillance from the skies. Click on the UAV icons below to learn more about the Predator ...