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Air Force

NATO Shows Off Global Hawk Surveillance Drone At Warsaw Summit

Friday, July 8th, 2016

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NATO Shows Off Global Hawk Surveillance Drone At Warsaw Summit

NATO AGS

NATO’s first wide-area ground-surveillance unmanned aircraft is on display in Warsaw, Poland, for the alliance’s ongoing Summit.A modified Northrop Grumman [NOC] Global Hawk, the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system is the alliance’s first organic high-altitude, long-endurance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability.The milestone is the culmination of a program that began 20 years ago when NATO developed requirements for a high-altitude ground surveillance capability. The first aircraft is scheduled to fly in August and will then be ferried to…

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