RQ-4 Global Hawk : The largest drone in the world

Designed by Northrop Grumman, the RQ-4 Global Hawk is a large-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) utilized by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Navy branches of service for long-range/high-endurance intelligence-gathering, target identification and general reconnaissance. Its mission is to provide a broad spectrum of ISR collection capability to support joint combatant forces in worldwide peacetime, contingency and wartime operations.
Global Hawk developed as an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration in 1995. It has been deployed operationally to support overseas contingency operations since November 2001. In the RQ-4 name, the "R" is the Department of Defense designation for reconnaissance and "Q" means unmanned aircraft system. The "4" refers to the series of purpose-built remotely piloted aircraft systems.

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