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Hoeven Wants to Bring Block 30 Global Hawks to N.D. for Hypersonic Missile Testing

Hoeven Wants to Bring Block 30 Global Hawks to N.D. for Hypersonic Missile Testing
An RQ-4 Global Hawk, assigned to the 319th Operations Group, Detachment 1, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, lands at Yokota Air Base, Japan on Aug. 5, 2019, for a rotational deployment (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) wants to bring the U.S. Air Force's fleet of 20 Northrop Grumman [NOC] RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 drones to Grand Sky, N.D. after their retirement to serve as Range Hawks for testing hypersonic missiles under the Sky Range program. Hoeven is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense panel. Last week, Hoeven and officials from Northrop Grumman and Grand Sky participated in a retirement ceremony for the four RQ-4 Block 20s which the Air…

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