Once the dust cleared, it turned out that one of the enduring lessons from the past week occurred at about 22,000 feet. The Iranian downing of an RQ-4A Global Hawk on Thursday is thought to have been ...

While at RAF Fairford, the RQ-4 will conduct operations through international and Allied airspace, implementing the U.S. Air Force’s Agile Combat Employment concept. A U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk ...

The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is the epitome of a modern-day intelligence complement unmanned aircraft, and has remained flexible to the demands of 21st-century warfare. However, it got its ...

"Iran made a very big mistake!" the president wrote. Earlier Thursday, U.S. Central Command confirmed in a statement that Iranian forces shot down a U.S. drone, an RQ-4 Global Hawk, in what officials ...

GE-Aviation announced on August 14 that it is under contract to supply flight control actuation, electrical power generation & control, emergency power and other aircraft systems for use on the RQ-4 ...

After a pause, the US Air Force has resumed high-altitude reconnaissance missions with drones over the Black Sea.

Northrop Grumman is now adapting the next two RQ-4 Global Hawk drones into aircraft that can monitor hypersonic system tests and expects to start integration testing on the pair later this summer. In ...

A U.S. Air Force drone faced issues due to Russian signal interference during a flight on August 29-30, according to the Estonian Ministry of Defense. During a reconnaissance flight in Estonian ...

SAN DIEGO, March 29, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) first RQ-4A Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration (GHMD) unmanned air vehicle has arrived at Naval Air Station, Patuxent ...

The RQ-4 Global Hawk, the backbone of the United States unmanned airpower during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has left the United States Air Force’s Beale Air Force Base. “Since... Russia’s ...