This is America’s Biggest UAV - Meet the RQ-4 GLOBAL HAWK
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft with an integrated sensor suite that provides global all-weather, day or night intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability. Northrop Grumman’s GLOBAL HAWK is one of, if not the world’s premier surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned aircraft system-and the Air Force’s go-to eye in the sky.
In the RQ-4 name, the "R" is the Department of Defense designation for Reconnaissance and "Q" means unmanned aircraft system. The "4" refers to the series of purpose-built remotely piloted aircraft systems.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Meet the RQ-4 Global Hawk
02:00 MQ-4C Triton Drone for the U.S. Navy
02:40 Why the USAF Loves the Global Hawk
04:47 Global Hawk Ground-based Command and Control
06:07 A HAWK With Global Reach
07:19 Global Hawk Retirement
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The Global Hawk was designed by Ryan Aeronautical and the first five or so were built in their plant in San Diego. I know this because I watched them being put together right next to my workstation where I was building tail assemblies for the AH-64 Apache helicopter. Northrop Grumman acquired the Global Hawk when they purchased Ryan in the early 2000s.
That is freaking awesome. 😎
General Atomics builds Predator UAVs in San Diego at their Scripps-Poway facilities.
And Marilyn Monroe worked for Ryan in WW2 building drones…
People think drones are novel…
(The earliest was the Queen Bee - a drone version of the Tiger Moth).
@@allangibson2408
The Kettering Bug WW1 Drone Americans , British had one also
That can be easily shot by a SAM...
At some point my eyes glazed over from marketingspeak. I heard “leverage”, “synergy”, “disrupt”, “game changer”, “agile” more times than I can count.
Game changer people really love that one and moving forward yuk. When people use these turms its because they are talking crap👍
Imagine going to the sales pitch for one of these things...
Rolls Royce has made aircraft engines literally forever, and it STILL makes an aircraft sound more badass when it has one
it is other way around in my mind. It makes it soft like an airliner😂 Pratt and Whitney is the state of the art
Merlin. Nuff said.
@@liquiddream Right. 'State of the art'. And yet they still went with the more expensive Rolls Royce.
Thing is, neither of those other brands make a universally recognized luxury vehicle that is well known to be connected to royalty and the elite. Rolls Royce has brand recognition outside of aircraft enthusiasts
An onward development of the Trent engines built in Derby (UK) at the Sinfin Assembly plant. I believe RR pulled out of the investment in AE prior to the final build and test flights of ot he engine.
These things have been racking up a lot of flight time in the airspace near Ukraine. Amazing piece of equipment
Average tradar24 viewer
The Russian are learning a lot from all of the flights. Cant wait until ww3 hopefully Russia buries nato for good
@@colinheppell5020 so?
@@fvs666 that means he is jobless , introvert and has no life of his own
@@RealPlatoishere bro i found that drone in 5 minutes just by looking on black sea
This thing flew super low over me at 3am in the Tucson Arizona desert while I was dispersed camping for a week. The place is called cactus forest where 100+ year old cactus rise 80+ feet into the sky. It set my motion light sensors off. Trippy experience.
nah that's the mothership bro, that aint the global hawk
Saw a B2 Stealth Bomber flying very low near Edwards AFB in CA one time. Very UFO like.
25 years ago, while driving my semi truck out west somewhere, I looked out the passenger side window and saw a B1 bomber fly past me.
Through the window. VERY low altitude.
A lot of things happen in the 🏜️.
@@keithfaulkner6319 i was driving around in the middle of nowhere in vegas. I heard a weird pulsing noise and suddenly a flying dorito flew over my car. Was the last time i ever saw that thing.
It's "face" always reminds me on a xenomorph's head
They gotta paint the face of those things on these, that would be mad 😂
Military stuff like this just makes me ask myself… “if they are showing us this stuff, what do they have now, that they are NOT showing the world?”
I mean the seal team 6 heli, the anti missile thingy that hovers in the rope room. There’s some crazy shit
..well..you could thnk of it other way around..if they hide something (from been sighted), thats a bit pointless, since, as soon as it enters service, its going to be spotted by enemy side, whoever that is...
@@eccosabanovic1589 you cant hide anything... we have nothing special. best thing that is coming is AI all other is simple primitive tech.
@@Methoverbitches Huh?
Well, if you take account the past year so many conspiracy theories have become true. Here are a few legit ones:
Animal human chimeras are not that far off, germ warfare capable of isolating and attacking specific genetic traits (bio labs in Ukraine have been testing an influenza strain deployed vía are aresol) in the Donbas region (Russian speaking
It's not about Height and speed. When we captured that the Super computer inside of it Helped us progressing 20 years in technology 🇮🇷❤
Cool story. America should be super scared I guess😂
Interesting that RQ-4 is considered no longer fit for purpose after 20 years whilst the B52 can be constantly upgraded to have a service life of 100 years.
B52 is a payload 100x the RQ. Worth keeping around.
The electronics are out of date.
You can get the same functions in an airframe with a quarter the size and four times the range…
when you have a band named after you,,,,,
@@allangibson2408 AFAIK, USAF evaluated Big UCAV vulnurabilities to Advanced Airdefence system. after 2019 when Iran shoot down 1 RQ-4.
and the result seems, not particularly on good note.
as, Even Block 30. which less than 10 years of service were getting retired
Cost to operate the RQ-4 per hour is insane. Its much more cost effective to use the BACN modified Bombardier Global Express jets they operate.
I have had the honor of being on that runway and watched several tale off and land. It is a huge ordeal to get them in the air. Lots and lots of people taking care of every single point. Really something to see.
Never realized how big that thing was.
Same here
That's what she said. 😏
@@ivanlowjones Dam it Dwight, that's my joke!
@@ivanlowjones I was expecting that response. 😀
@@ap4709pk
It's timeless.
Thank you for using the metric system as well ... as one Englishman said "The metric system takes over inch by inch ".👍😁
It's fascinating watching the FORTE flights of RQ4's over the Black Sea and Romania. I would LOVE to have just 5 mins of what they are seeing.
They could probably count the rivets of any Russian ship they see out there
Great
I heard they can see 500 miles out.
@@lindamoses3697 The ADS-B data shows 50,000' cruise so, assuming you can see a mile if you are 500' up which is totally reasonable.
50,000' and seeing 500 miles... I have ZERO trouble believing that.
@@BullGator-kd6geprobably ga e the Ukrainians the exact position of the Moskva ship
Awesome Aircraft, Thanks Sam And Crew. 👍 🇺🇸
"the RQ-4 is no longer capable of surviving near pear adversaries."
In other words: our enemies have reverse engineered it and now we are making a new version. China has one that looks exactly like it, they're not called copycats for nothing.
China has a lot of things that look a lot like our stuff but work like Russias stuff.
@@AndySpicer so they have better stuff. Dont believe propaganda from US.
@@AndySpicer you mean it doesn't work?
say directly that it was shot down by IRAN 😂
@@abbaszaidi3044Iran couldn't shoot down the one that killed salami or whatever his name was. The white bearded guy's butt buddy 🤣
Their precious revolutionary gaurd FAILED hard.
It looks like a xenomorph from the Alien movies.
Stay frosty
Big thanks for including values in both measurement systems.
This is sick! I need a smaller version of this to review 🙌
The Newer Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth drone that was deployed in 2007 operated by the USAF and CIA is probably my favorite UAV for reconnaissance. Although it’s endurance is low at a flight time of 6 hours with a top altitude of 50,000 feet is a great carrier launched UAV. The Upgrade to the Global HAWK, the MQ-20 Predator, developed from the reaper and launched in 2009 with a cruise speed of between 402 MPH and 460 MPH at 50,000 feet for 19 hours with an internal weapons grade with 3.5 tons of bombs and 6 external hard points with a total carrying capacity of 6.5 tons. But I am probably most excited for the X-47B Pegasus Demonstration unmanned combat Aerial vehicle but, the Lockheed Martin Loyal wingman is probably the coolest most SciFi UAV I’ve ever seen
Wow. That thing is huge.
That's what she said..... 🙄☺️
@@nativetexan7433 Dam it Dwight, that's my joke!
You can find these flying over the black sea every few days on flight radar
Russian airforce: "Does it have garmin sat nav and Canon SLR camera?"
USA: We built the biggest UAV (cheers in the background)
Iran: Thats the biggest free real estate
After watching Top Gun Maverick my youtube recommendations has been filled with Airforce and Jet videos and I am 100% here for it
..they are making this known because a more complex ones have been built that we don't know about!
we tell themeverything they know not what we know
That's one heck of a drone!
My aunt works for Northrop Grumman. She currently is assigned to working on the Global Hawk.
awesome USAF global hawk & super excellent engineering by Northrop Grumman #👍❤️
I'm looking forward to some nose art on these. 🇺🇸
Thanks for the technical exposition of this wonderful piece of military technology
They look like the movie "Alien" creature's head...scary. The little mouth come out to bite you!
Keep 'em flying!
Extra points for mentioning metric units. Thanks.
This should be regulated and mandatory :)
While at that,it is incorrect to mention altitude in Kilometers. Altitude should be measured in thousands of meters, just like we don’t measure altitude in miles but in thousands of feet. Kilometers should be used for horizontal distance.
US never stop to develop every day of new advance technology. 💪🇺🇲🇺🇲
R eyes glaze and tear up with pride. Any argument to this comment. Look in a mirror. You will see an example of a moron
Like. Lighter cheaper assault rifles, making it easier for kids to kill other kids in school.
Makes you well up whith pride.?
Take a look in mirror. What do you see?. I would say a moron.
Iran 😂😂😂
Your English not very goodly am.
With only 1 trillion dollars worth of tax payers money lol
Love it
12,300 mile range is incredible
I wonder what they learned if they tried to shoot it down with our own stuff.
In other words, we need a Next Generation Unmanned Spy Plane that flies above 100,000 ft and stays up for Days at a time.
I saw the Reaper drones when I was deployed, I always thought they looked kind of creepy because there’s no physical pilot.
Sky Net is right around the corner.
Its closer to an rc airplane with the goggles
This is so awesome!
June 20 2019 Persian Gulf Sevom Khordad air defence ✌️🚀
Dident know they where made that big.
Heh...discrete packaging available...
*Did not *were made that big
@@Travis_22 , Don't be that guy.
It looks pretty average to me
It's good to correct grammar, together we can make internet better.
NGL it looks like it's too chunky to even take off
This was in my recommended not disappointed.
We must be proud about USA military.🇺🇲🇺🇲🎖️
If you watch on flightradar24 there's always a GH flying loops over the black sea to watch Ukrain during the day .. But at night it flies back to Italy.
Yes it can, and does operate at night. But, night also brings the advantage of darkness to the equation, and thus the ability to utilize even more advanced and highly classified equipment...
It is usually flying loops along the border with Ukraine whilst in Polish or Romanian airspace
@@deang5622 Not really, these days the sensors are so good that there's no need to fly along the border to see far into a country. The Global Hawk ALWAYS flies circles over the black sea below Sevastopol to see far into Ukraine ..
It probably just goes back for the food.
On June 20, 2019, Iran's integrated system of Air Defense Forces shot down a United States RQ-4A Global Hawk BAMS-D surveillance drone with a man portable surface-to-air missile over the Strait of Hormuz.Iran and the U.S. differ on where the incident actually occurred. Iranian officials said that the drone violated their airspace.
i remember
That wasn't with man portable missle, actually a defense system
The air defense system that shot down this advanced UAV on that date was made by Iran and was old, same date. which was easily identified and easily targeted and shot down, in 2011 the RQ170 drone for the CIA organization of the USA and Iran was able to hack it and put it on the ground.
Iranians know this drone very well.
Wow! Awesome Aircraft
I’m fairly sure that my father’s department had some involvement in the Global Hawk program, but for obvious reasons, he never could divulge information relating to what his responsibilities were. For what the GH was designed for, it has done its job very well.12’000 NM is a long distance to travel, that’s for sure.
US will still lose all the wars it creates, regardless of the tech.
Make a guy want to do summersaults !! What great platforms these Global Hawks are! I'm surprised there isn't a Harrier Jump Jet or Osprey type or Chinook type that can deposit munitions and armament where needed. The controls commands already exist. Wire up the servos and deliver Howitzers and the ammo anywhere. A self destruct means; like I'm pretty sure exists on the Global Hawks; So no one gets the mother boards or whatever should work to eliminate copy threat. Fly them in groups with about, 5 Artificial High Radar and Heat Profile, decoys.
Aww it’s absolutely adorable 🥰
What a beauty.
Thank you very much for the Metric measurements!!! 😃
Global Hawk also had a mission in Iran 😀
was it successful?
shoted down@@root7836
They are relics in today’s technology. Remember that.
Indeed
They should consider giving it a Xenomorph paint job.
1:45 All those billions spent to make these possible, and a guy is still dragging WWII wooden wheel chocks on the tarmac. Priceless!
if it ain't broke don't let the gov know remember the a10
Wooden wheel chocks are simple, cheap, and effective
You rather expensive titanium chocks?
Well having been a professional pilot for almost 5 decades, wooden chocks are the way to go. They do the job. I don't recall ever seeing anything other that the ones made from wood. Hell, I use to fly a helicopter with wooden rotor blades. No time limit on those.
@@a1c3c3u 100%
It's curious not to see upright wingtips mounted. It would give the RQ-4 15% longer range as the drag of the vortex which is now prevalent at its wingtips, would be minimised. Very very strange for such a sophisticated craft.
Does not need wing tip because it’s a Laminar flow wing just like. The P-51 mustang give it great range I know i built over 25 from the start and into flight test from San Diego to Edwards AFB…
@@thomasgripley6653 Reallly? I never heard of that, but I give it to you. You are more expert, apparently. Thanks anyway.
amazing!
Those flight suits and jackets are super clean.
I was just gonna say. Check out the guy at the keyboard wearing a leather jacket. I bet he thought about getting a white scarf to go with it...
Global Hawk is supposedly not survivable in, or near, an air space defended by a modern near peer adversary with an advanced SAM systems, but USAF somehow manages to fly the U-2 Dragon lady, an aircraft that was shown to be incapable of executing missions near an advanced enemy's territory, more than 60 years ago... WTF.... Why is Global Hawk suddenly obsolete?
But anyway, since USAF apparently decided to retire and replace the Global Hawk, I expect them to be replaced by the shadowy RQ-180 in larger numbers, or some completely new air frame that's so freaking stealthy it can hover above the Red square not being detected while reading the paper held by Vlad himself.
its obsolete because the weapons manufactures lobby congress to buy new ones.
Both platforms require total air dominance in order to used in hostile areas. The Global Hawk's ability to loiter for over 24 hrs. is great, but it's ISR capabilities aren't that great. If they're using the same old Raytheon Electro-Optical camera, then it's imagery leaves a lot to be desired. It's SIGINT ability is very limited. Someone compared it to a Bearcat. An upgraded alternative is definitely needed. The U-2's loitering limit is about 12 hrs., Due to pilot fatigue. It's ISR ability is far superior to the Global Hawk. Both complement one another. Use of such platforms means satellites don't have to be repositioned. IMHO, I don't think the future UAVs will have anywhere near the payload capability of the U-2 and, consequently, will not provide better Intel.
It is obsolete because one was shot down by one of Iran's older sam systems back in 2019 when it was hovering near Iranian airspace.
The reason why the Global Hawke might announced as obsolete is because the US airforce might have a better model and need some disinformation out there.🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸
The U2 flies at over 77,000 feet altitude out of range of most SAMs.
Looks like a faceless plane
Cause it is lol
Beautiful..
Thank you so much for also mentioning metric values
WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER RAHHHHH 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 CONVERT TO YOUR “KILOMETERS” YOU DAMN BRITS
@@YukariAkiyama c'mon XD
Iran shot down a Global Hawk 1/4 this size with a homemade 1960s rocket. This thing is huge. To big to miss. Bigger is not always better. Look at the Turkish Bayraktar. Small, cheap and the same capabilities.
Same capabilities.... right.
Do some reading on the avionic specification list in this thing and the Bayraktar and when your head gets sore give us an update on which one looks more capable. I'll give you a clue, it's the one that looks like a flying brain
You miss the point. It's unmanned. They will just send up another one.
I'm sure this is the one that's been doing flights over the Black Sea on flight radar 24. It's been getting really close out of Romania on the Russian fleet.
What the....!!
Awesome america u r really good at such things 👌👌
This is a badass! Go USA!
Go where spying or killing?
We hunted it in Iran a few years ago when it violated airspace in the Persian Gulf
It's not too bad
YEP!!✌️I LOVE THE RQ-4 GLOBAL HAWK ✈️🇺🇸💯🌟💖💖💖
IT'S PRETTY DIFFERENT AND LOOKS LIKE A WHALE🐋
AWESOME PLANE 👌✨
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Hello Coby, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
@@trevorjennings589 Hello Mr.Trevor Jennings I'm doing OK how about U??Second...which Virus did U mean the Monkey or Covid?😶BTW....I'm safe hope U are too👍
Anyway....can U tell me who U are??
I assume U are from the USA right??
Well...have a GREAT day😃Ms.COBY 🔯🇳🇱🐻🐱🌹
@@cobyvandrongelen331 I mean the COVID. I’m safe from it too. I’m from Houston Texas if you may know. How about you?? I would love to know more about you, how is your day going??
Imagine if all the time money and effort was spent on making the world a sustainable place for us to survive on 🤯
Yeah, and imagine the dumb hippies in charge of this commie utopia getting slaughtered by chinese troops who want our stuff and don't mind killing us to get it.
The largest collective group of humans that you can address is a nation. Global cooperation won’t ever happen until humans are faced with an extinction event. Until that moment comes… military expenditures to protect the interests of those groups of humans is necessary and prudent.
@@MehulP30 yes, I understand that but it does not stop it all being a pointless thing though, you could put forward 1000s of reasons but ultimately they would be stupid reasons that should not exist. You are totally wrong about "the largest group of humans you can address is a nation" because for starters people have been addressing Europe as a single body for decades and that is not a single nation, also there are plenty summit meetings where world leaders all attend. Open your eyes
When a 747 and a DC 10 have a baby..😄
Planes can't have sex.
What a machine!
Man drones are tough biz
Didn't iran get one of these? or just crashed there?
Iran Hacked RQ-170 and Crashed RQ-4
😂😂 this is the same that shot down by IRAN' s IRGC with old technology
دقیقاً 😂😂😂💪🏻🇮🇷🇮🇷💪🏻
One of these over Turkey today, its all kicking off
Don't know if it relates but I was a HAWK radar repairman during the Viet Nam war. Glad to see that designation endures.
It was intercepted and destroyed by Iran🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷
Drones are the future of the military. Period.
Hello Pamela, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
@@trevorjennings589 doing fine. Got all three shots.
@@pamelahunter6555 that’s good to know that you’re safe from the Virus. Well Pamela, I’m also safe from the Virus too.. so tell me dear, hope you’re having a nice and a wonderful day today??
@@trevorjennings589 I am attempting to install a picket fence, pave a north side weed bed and plant a container garden. Staying busy during summer months. also paving part if gravel driveway and soon on roof to fix broken shingles on mud room.
@@pamelahunter6555 Okay..
If I may ask Pamela, where are you from??
Great Going ,
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I like using these things when I play Call of Duty. They're so helpful 💯
Judgement day. The day sky net became self aware.
Thanks very much....Shoe🇺🇸
Bravo
This is unnerving and I can't quite explain why
Awesome Drone.
Hello Michael, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
Ah yes these!
Magnificent metal birds!
Ok fancy words aside I’ve seen then fly below cloud layers here in Baghdad in early 2020
Never knew it was that large. I figured it was the size of 1-2 large SUV’s
what a machine
I think the aerodynamic shape of RQ-04 gives it verticle lift specially due to the space between hood and engine.
Good job boys. Thanks
God bless America for the coming treatments ...!
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! GOD BLESS AMERICA
They need to outfit some Global Hawks as autonomous JDAM platform's, So our operators can have a menu of support munitions with 24/7 availability. Like the ghost operatives in StarCraft II : )
"Nuclear launch detected."
nice
Its a shark it swallows the enemy's plain and poops it out. Priceless
One of these was just circulating off of the romanian coast if I'm not mistaken a few days ago. Just circulating and looks like it took off from a spanish airport.
The future of all aerial and armored vehicles.
" 10:10 " PM comming on laps artntfield
Wait that drone exists wow unbelievable
Thanks U.S. Air Force!
Fun Fact: The Global Hawk's designer also designed the Rabbit G-spot Stimulator.