Andersen receives Pacific’s first ($35+ million dollar) Global Hawk drone

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Wikipedia sez this drone costs $35 million dollars, but I know that Wikipedia constantly low balls the cost of weapons systems.




Andersen receives Pacific’s first Global Hawk drone
By Travis J. Tritten
Stars and Stripes
Published: September 8, 2010

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle made its military debut in the Pacific region this month, according to the U.S. Air Force.

[MrScorpio]

1. I wonder if my old Predator unit will get them

Our Predators weren't armed back in the day, but used to lose them to ground fire now and again.