US delivers second RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV to RoKAF

摘要

The Republic of Korea Air Force (RoKAF) has received the second of four Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Block 30 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) it ordered from the United States in 2014. Harry Harris, the US ambassador to South Korea, released an image on 19 April showing two Global Hawks in RoKAF markings in a hangar at an undisclosed location. Harris did not specify the number of UAVs delivered, but a RoKAF official told Jane's that only one UAV had recently been handed over, meaning that the photograph published by Harris shows the RoKAF's first Global Hawk alongside the recently delivered second one. On 9 April the Yonhap News Agency had quoted South Korean officials as saying that two more Global Hawks were expected to be delivered in April, following the arrival of the first one in December 2019.