On 20 September, a Hawk unmanned aircraft systems RQ-4A Global order from ninth to air combat wing reconnaissance at Beale Air Force Base crossed the Atlantic with the help of officials of the Navy. The flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Southwest Asia took 19 hours. The Navy and Air Force officials have worked in parallel to save time and resources.
Class Matthew Milles, an expert aviator of the first avionics, he said, "the navy has all supplies that we have, the more support contract. It's just a lot easier than going to a remote location. The operation jointly with the Navy moves the plane faster to the the deployed position. "
"Go this direction, specifically allows us to cut many different stops in many different areas, "stated George Zaniewski column of the head of the division of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance ACC. "In general, enter the aircraft over the area of \u200b\u200bresponsibility much easier, and more importantly than that, it allows us to work with the Navy, which will increasingly be in the global hawk.
"Specifically for the Global Hawk, we are moving more and more into maritime environments, so we're going to be able to work with the Navy much more than we ever."
The transatlantic flight of the Global Hawk is just the beginning an increased ratio between the Air Force and Navy. It is also a step toward the initiative's chief of staff to increase the capacity of unmanned aircraft systems for flight together. The column
Zaniewski added, "What I hope for the future is that it becomes a common sense ... that we worked with our sister services, to where we can improve both the acquisition process, but also the process operational. "
Working with another service may not always be easy, but the mission of NAS Patuxent River was a win-win for both parties that the Navy aircraft.
"There is a bit of a different language, different process, but overall we are still the same airframe, "stated Lt Navy. Commander John Tracey, the official global naval project of a falcon. "We kind of smaller, kid brother of the global community of the hawk, so it is pleasant to work with each other."
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