Keywords: US Navy 970220-D-0000G-001 Global Hawk awaits roll out.jpg en San Diego Calif Feb 20 1997 -- A Global Hawk the Department of Defense s newest unmanned air vehicle sits in a hangar before its roll out Global Hawk is a high-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial reconnaissance system that will provide military field commanders with high-resolution near-real-time imagery of large geographic areas The Global Hawk is optimized for low-to-moderate threat long endurance reconnaissance missions where range endurance and persistent coverage are paramount The Global Hawk system can survey in one day an area equivalent to the state of Illinois 40 000 square nautical miles while providing imagery with a three-foot resolution Alternatively the system can provide more detailed spot images of one-foot resolution when needed DOD Photo courtesy David Gossett Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical RELEASED 1997-02-20 970220-D-0000G-001 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 3000 U S Navy photo PD-USGov-Military-Navy Naval Base San Diego in the 2010s |