Faster than some would have suspected, drones are changing the way wars are fought and history is written. Ever since the U.S. launched the first armed drone strike in 2001, these machines have been a ...

The fourth and penultimate RQ-4D UAV in the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Force arrived at Sigonella Air Base in Italy on 26 July after a non-stop transatlantic flight. ‘The arrival of the ...

NATO is planning to award Boeing a $1 billion contract to upgrade the alliance’s fleet of E-3A airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft at a ceremony at Melsbroek Air Base in Brussels on ...

NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF) has completed its first 24-hr.-long mission using an RQ-4D Phoenix derivative of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk. The unmanned platform flew the ...

We have explained in detail what NATO AGS system in a recent article. Here’s an excerpt: NATO’s AGS is a cooperative defense project to give the Alliance the ability to monitor “what’s happening on ...

Northrop Grumman has delivered the last of five NATO RQ-4D Phoenix Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) aircraft. The company said on 12 November that the delivery to Italy's Sigonella Air Base took 20 ...

The second of five RQ-4D Global Hawk has arrived at its new homebase in Sigonella, Italy, after a 20-hour flight from Edwards AFB. On Dec. 19, 2019, at 14.39LT, the second Northrop Grumman Block 40 ...

Northrop Grumman has hailed a series of world firsts for its RQ-4D Phoenix-based Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system, ahead of NATO’s declaration of initial operating capability (IOC), which is ...

NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF) has taken delivery of its fifth Northrop Grumman RQ-4D Global Hawk unmanned air system, completing the fleet. The final delivery on Nov. 12 comes ...

A NATO done appeared to have lost communications as it travelled near Russian airspace, sparking fears Moscow's forces may have jammed comms. The NATO RQ-4D Phoenix, callsign MAGMA10, reportedly sent ...

The arrival of the second NATO Allied Ground Surveillance (AGS) Global Hawk RQ-4D Block 40 remotely piloted aircraft on 19 December at the aircraft’s new main operating base in Sigonella, Sicily, is ...

Initial operational capability has been reached by the Northrop Grumman RQ-4D fifteen months after the first was delivered. The NATO AGS Force’s fleet of five RQ-4D Phoenixes formed a backdrop for the ...