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Article: Pre-Katrina Global Hawk Scenario Uses Category 5 Hurricane, Gulf Coast.(Northrop Grumman Corp.)(applications of Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- September 14, 2005
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By Ann Roosevelt
Just two weeks before Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, Northrop Grumman [NOC] and the Air Force considered a scenario using the Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) featuring a category five hurricane and the Gulf Coast, according to a company official.
"Two weeks before Katrina, in cooperation with the Air Force, we looked at other applications that you would use for Global Hawk--and we just were basically thinking about different types of concepts of operations to take advantage of endurance and the multi-sensor capability and more importantly, the ability to fly from Edwards [AFB, Calif.] and reach any spot in ...