Unwanted Global Hawk Drones Are Being Transformed To Support Hypersonic Missile Tests
Northrop Grumman is now working to convert four RQ-4s as Range Hawks to gather data on the new breed of hypersonic weapons.
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RQ-4 Global Hawk Drone Crashes Just Outside Of Grand Forks Air Force Base
The high-flying unmanned aerial vehicle came down after returning from a sortie.
Customs And Border Protection Reaper Drone Appears Over Minneapolis Protests
The unmanned aircraft looks to be surveilling the city amid protests following the police killing of George Floyd.
The Time When A Burning B-52 Nearly Caused A Nuclear Catastrophe “Worse than Chernobyl”
Nearly four decades ago, a U.S. Air Force B-52H bomber, armed with eight nuclear-tipped AGM-69A Short Range Attack Missiles and four B28 nuclear gravity bombs, burned for hours at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. Years later, despite previous assurances that the risk of a nuclear accident had been low, the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a U.S. nuclear weapons research and development facility, testified that the incident had actually come very close to being “worse than Chernobyl.”