The U.S. Air Force is using reconnaissance assets such as the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft to gather critical intelligence over Japanese airspace in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the island nation in early March. Both the RQ-4 Global Hawk, built by Northrop Grumman [NOC], and a U-2 spy plane flew over the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to assess damage done by the magnitude-9.0 March 11 earthquake. The Global Hawk used in the mission is stationed at…
U.S. Supports Japan Aid Mission With Surveillance Efforts
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