Air Force Prepares For Second, Six-Month Global Hawk Deployment To Japan

By James Drew / January 26, 2015 at 11:24 AM
The Air Force plans to deploy four Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to Japan this monsoon season in the second deployment of its kind. The movement comes as the Global Hawk program office in Ohio prepares to install a weather radar capability on the high-altitude spy fleet that would reduce the need for forward deployments. A Jan. 22 request for proposals posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website calls for contractors to support the six-month mission to Misawa Air Base...

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