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Northrop Grumman, L-3 MAS To Offer Global Hawk Variant To Canada

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

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Northrop Grumman [NOC] and L-3 MAS [LLL] yesterday said they plan to join forces on a variant of the Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for Canada to maintain continuous surveillance of its Arctic territories. Dubbed "Polar Hawk™," the system will be designed to stay aloft for long periods of time in harsh weather conditions over vast expanses of the Earth's surface monitoring land, ice, littoral and open water environments throughout the Arctic. "Northrop Grumman…

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