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Air Force Global Hawks Could Soon Carry Any Sensor

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Air Force Global Hawks Could Soon Carry Any Sensor
The Global Hawk is one of the Pentagon highest profile unmanned system. (Photo: Northrop Grumman)

The Air Force in July will begin testing a payload adapter for the RQ-4 Global Hawk that will allow it to carry the sensor that is currently carried by the manned U-2 surveillance aircraft.The universal payload adapter (UPA) will allow the Global Hawk to carry the wet film optical bar camera (OBC), among other electro-optical and infrared sensors. The U-2’s ability to carry the OBC, which captures huge amount of actionable intelligence imagery from high altitude in high definition, has…

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