Comments on: Anti-Piracy Missions for Global Hawk

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:51:36 +0000

So is this the Raymond that is a Native American performer? That performed at Silver Springs just last week? Novemeber 17–19? Thank you.

By: Brian H

Brian H — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:16:16 +0000

Ryan;
there are much smaller cheaper platforms available; IIRC, some are coming into use. Here’s one problem: FAA regs on civilian air space.
http://tinyurl.com/27fufs

By: Magnus

Magnus — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:37:26 +0000

Gen Hester must be referring to a post OIF/OEF world because there will only be a few operational Global Hawks in our inventory over the next few years.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:14:58 +0000

Are those guys in the Global Hawk photo wearing sneakers?

By: Sunshine Goodness

Sunshine Goodness — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:04:23 +0000

The Global Hawk costs about $35 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-4_Global_Hawk

By: jerome smith

jerome smith — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:14:45 +0000

a f-22 costs 340 millioin,designed to fight thr cold war.Thats not what we need in todays conflicts.Money canbe spent on cheaper planes and the savings on better equiopment bfor the people that are actally doing the fighting.Of course the defence contractors dont like that theory.WE spend on high teck and the US and the isreils have proven we are fighting people out oif the dark ages

By: jerome smith

jerome smith — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:09:49 +0000

as the U-2 phases outthe powers that be think the hawk is the answer.It only has a longer flying time.For the past 30 years nobody talks to the Generals and Admirals like in WWII.
Let the Air frorce be in charge of the new systems
Also all the smartbombs are stymied by a fanatic with a bomb on his chest.War means you have to kill.Something the present a holes seem to have forgotten

By: Roy Smith

Roy Smith — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:59:14 +0000

Again,realizing its size,no wonder there are so few of them.Its like building a regular plane. What is the cost of each Global Hawk?

By: Roy Smith

Roy Smith — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:56:56 +0000

Thanks for having a picture of the Global Hawk with people standing next to it.I never fully appreciated just how big it is.Why couldn’t they arm it like they do the Predator? Allow it to carry JDAMS or cruise missiles,at the very least,JDAMS.Now that I’ve seen its size,why not arm it?

By: R483

R483 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:16:46 +0000

There just are not enough Global Hawks to go around to do all the existing Military Missions asked of it now, let alone adding non-Military Missions to it’s Job List too.
I am surprised the U2 is being replaced by GH, as HALE’s cannot think, like a human can. Just wait until North Korea shoots one down… I can just see the Headlines now: The Pueblo Incident, The EC-121 Incident, and now… The Global Hawk Incident. When are we going to learn?
Pirates in the Straits of Malacca? Just arm the Oil Tankers with a couple of Phalanx Mk-15 CIWS and telling the Captain to turn the switch to “ON” before going to sleep at night. It’s very hard to stand up to flying pieces of Depleated Uranium… even if you are a Pirate in a Fast Boat with AK-47’s and Grappling Hooks trying to come on-board… lol!!.