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 foгсe’s go-to eуe in the sky.
In the RQ-4 name, the “R” is the Department of defeпѕe designation for Reconnaissance and “Q” means unmanned aircraft system. The “4” refers to the series of purpose-built remotely piloted aircraft systems.