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DoD Testers Find Global Hawk Operational Flaws

Julie Samuel
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Pentagon testers found a new version of the RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle cannot effectively conduct the type of persistent spying for which it was designed. The Block 30 version of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] drone “is not operationally effective for conducting near-continuous, persistent (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) ISR as specified in the Air Force Concept of Employment,” according to the RQ-4B Global Hawk Block 30 Operational Test and Evaluation Report. The 70-page report, dated May 2011 and signed…

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