RQ-4 Global Hawk

RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system for persistent wide-area intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance with near-real-time multi-sensor collection.

Facts

  • Company: Northrop Grumman
  • Type: Hale Isr UAV
  • Positioning: RQ-4 Global Hawk
  • Function: Persistent wide-area ISR
  • Audience: Defence and intelligence operators
  • Status: Active
  • Website: https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/aircraft/global-hawk

Specifications

  • Wingspan Ft: RQ-4B wingspan 130.9 ft
  • Length Ft: RQ-4B fuselage length 47.6 ft
  • Flight Hours: Global Hawk fleet has amassed more than 320,000 flight hours
  • Weather Operation: High-resolution imagery collection by day or night and in all weather
  • Communications Relay: Selected fleet configurations support airborne communications relay
  • Endurance: Endurance greater than 30 hours
  • Service Ceiling Ft: Operates at altitudes up to 60,000 ft
  • Mission Range Nmi: Mission range greater than 10,000 nautical miles

Market context

Defence and intelligence operators

  • Peer Group: Tactical ISR UAV
  • Workflow: Drone autonomy, Wide-area ISR, Drone ISR
  • Capability: Autonomous drone operations

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Deployments

  • Cumulative Flight Hours - 320,000+ flight hours - Northrop Grumman reports more than 320,000 Global Hawk flight hours. - source: northropgrumman.com

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