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Article: RQ-4 Global Hawk NAV-BRAO issue.
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- Flying Safety
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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The RQ-4 Global Hawk was Teledyne-Ryan's winning entry to The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's High Altitude, Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Tier II+ program. Later acquired by the Northrop-Grumman Corporation, Global Hawk has gained respect as it gradually comes of age and its operators gather experience in operational theaters.
Global Hawk is truly a marvelous system--it flies higher than commercial aircraft and by far exceeds other aircraft (manned or unmanned) in endurance; typical operational sortie duration can be 20-plus hours (test sorties conducted to much longer durations).
Guidance for the aircraft is provided through the ...