As military monitoring trends in China and North Korea
Kyodo News has reported the 11th two aircraft unmanned reconnaissance aircraft Global Hawk of the U.S. military that is based in weekly U.S. military base, performing a reconnaissance mission of China and North Korea are known to have recently started activities.
Aomori (靑森) Misawa (three Faculty) The city, revealed to have been started on the 7th of operation of the two aircraft Global Hawk, which is placed one after another first end of the tube U.S. military Misawa leave. Two aircraft Global Hawk is scheduled to about twice every week until October, and reconnaissance activities in the Asia-Pacific Ocean region.
The Global Hawk of these, pilot on the ground facilities of Misawa base is to steer during take-off and landing, but in the after rising to more than a certain height, to steer remotely from Air Force Base in California, USA.
It is possible to identify the objects of the size of a golf ball on the ground from 20,000 m over a long time Global Hawk 14.5m length of the fuselage, a 39.9m length between the edge and the wing end (wide airspace It also has the advantage of being able to 30 hours) the longest flight.
To fly a high altitude can not reach fighter general, it is possible to avoid military conflict, and close to the airspace near the other country, conduct surveillance missions in the high-end camera.
Recently, the South China Sea, Vietnam waters, the East China Sea Senkaku Global Hawk, which is located in the U.S. military bases in Japan is the Japanese media: Yes (Toga阁 Chinese name. Diaoyu Islands <钓鱼 Island>) is archipelago, main and over the Korean Peninsula was reported to be flying in, to monitor the military trend of China and North Korea.
Ministry of Defense of Japan is expected in the future, introducing a Global Hawk from the United States, to establish operational troops of fifty-scale Self-Defense Force base in Misawa to 2018.
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