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Air Force

Global Hawk Completes First Acceptance Flight of Block 30 Multi-Int Sensor Package

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, July 8th, 2011

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The newest Northrop Grumman [NOC]-built RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft completed the first production acceptance flight of an operational Block 30 multi-intelligence sensor package, the company said yesterday. The May 25 Global Hawk flight from Palmdale, Calif., marks a new era of increased operational intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability flown with multiple sensors simultaneously from a single platform, the company said in a statement. The multi-intelligence sensor package includes the airborne signals intelligence payload (ASIP) manufactured by Northrop…

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