Senate appropriators aren’t looking to stand in the way of the Air Force’s planned divestment of a portion of its Global Hawk fleet, though they’re hoping the service will direct some of the aircraft toward ongoing hypersonic flight-testing efforts. Lawmakers in the report accompanying the Senate Appropriations Committee’s mark of the fiscal year 2022 spending bill, released Monday , wrote that they supported the Air Force’s plan to retire the Block 20 and Block 30 RQ-4s, leaving the Block 40...
