Thursday, August 06, 2015

Global Hawk, Predator, Other Drones may get Upgrades Including air to air missiles


It’s a little-known fact that when Northrop Grumman designed the Global Hawk spy drone back in the 1990s, the company added underwing hardpoints for weapons — just in case the U.S. Air Force decided, down the road, that it wanted to arm the currently-weaponless 737-size surveillance robot.


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TO be honest, it would be better to start phasing out the predators and reapers for a new drone with the capabilities they want rather than add in the capability for a drone which is not really able to perform very well in, say, an air to air mission.

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