U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk Drone Crashes in California (Update private company to recover drone

a reply to: Zaphod58
Is there any validity to the Hal Turner shows claim that a Russian S-300 shot down a global hawk UAV over the Mediterranean yesterday??

U.S. EQ-4 GLOBAL HAWK DRONE SHOT DOWN BY RUSSIAN S-300 OVER MEDITERRANEAN SEA NEAR SYRIA

a reply to: worldstarcountry

No. And he didn't get what BACN is right either.

a reply to: Zaphod58
Thank you for that. I just thought I would run it by the experts here, since we are discussing the same vehicle.

It seems like none of the ANG or regular unites are available to recover the remains of the air frame and the USAF is looking to hire an private firm www.thedrive.com...

a reply to: FredT

They're getting into the fun time of year where budgets are low and maintenance is high.

According to the AIB report one of the four onboard "navigators" failed, and the aircraft didn't detect the failure. The aircraft eventually rolled over almost inverted, and exceeded its maximum airspeed and broke up before impact.

The aircraft departed Edwards on a ferry flight to Beale. After takeoff two of the four onboard navigators were disabled, per SOP under normal operations.

www.acc.af.mil...

Sounds like some bug hunting is to be done if the computers didnt pick up the error.