Still Waters Posted October 31, 2013 #1 Share Posted October 31, 2013 The Global Hawk is one of the US military's most sophisticated spy planes and the BBC was able to get a rare view of one at Grand Forks Airbase in North Dakota. It can travel halfway round the world on a single tank of fuel and can track a man on the ground, even when the earth is covered by cloud, from a height of about 18,000m - that's close to 60,000ft. http://www.bbc.co.uk...canada-24729998 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted October 31, 2013 #2 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Dang, at 1.7 billion US dollars per plane, it must be seriously sophisticated. And it can reach nearly twice the alltitude of a commercial airline. Unarmed, apparently, and used only as a spy plane. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Ford Posted November 2, 2013 #3 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Dang, at 1.7 billion US dollars per plane, it must be seriously sophisticated. And it can reach nearly twice the alltitude of a commercial airline. Unarmed, apparently, and used only as a spy plane. Amazing. I'm not 100% sure but I think the news article was saying that 5 of the planes cost $1.7bill. Not $1.7bill each. In fact, I just checked:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_Hawk There is says the cost about $222.7mill each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DieChecker Posted November 6, 2013 #4 Share Posted November 6, 2013 (edited) I'm not 100% sure but I think the news article was saying that 5 of the planes cost $1.7bill. Not $1.7bill each. In fact, I just checked:- http://en.wikipedia....Q-4_Global_Hawk There is says the cost about $222.7mill each. Well... A bargain then. EDIT: Read... read... read. Very cool. It says 1.7 billion dollars of NATO money. Not sure why they are calling it a plane. Should be called a drone. Edited November 6, 2013 by DieChecker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolguy Posted November 6, 2013 #5 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Very cool plane. USA has the coolest planes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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