1 posted on
06/26/2009 12:08:57 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
"NEW, IMPROVED - Production workers with Northrop Grumman Corp. pose Thursday in front of the latest version of Global Hawk, the unmanned spy plane, dubbed Block 40, during a rollout ceremony for the aircraft at the Air Force Plant 42 facility in Palmdale." EVELYN KRISTO/Valley Press 2 posted on
06/26/2009 12:10:03 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Good thing Bush got it rolling when he did, or it probably never would have gotten made.
4 posted on
06/26/2009 12:13:46 PM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: BenLurkin
I wonder what the cruising (on station) speed is?
6 posted on
06/26/2009 12:26:17 PM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: BenLurkin
Me and my buddies are getting tired of regular RC planes.
How do we get ahold of one of these surplus and do they include the flight controls?
gollee...
9 posted on
06/26/2009 12:42:40 PM PDT by
montomike
(Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
To: BenLurkin
It can work with Predators, with Global Hawk finding targets, and Predators being dispatched to take them out.
10 posted on
06/26/2009 12:43:41 PM PDT by
PapaBear3625
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
To: BenLurkin
13 posted on
08/17/2009 11:24:42 PM PDT by
myknowledge
(F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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