As North Korea is preparing to launch military reconnaissance satellites, the US Air Force seems to increase its surveillance.
Yonhap News Agency reported that the Pacific Air Force announced on Thursday (May 25) that it has begun to deploy the RQ-4 "Global Eagle" unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that was originally stationed at the Anderson Air Force Base stationed at the Anderson Air Force Base in Guam in Japan.(Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk).
RQ-4 Global Eagle unmanned reconnaissance aircraft belongs to Guam's 319th Investigation Federation. Since 2017, it has implemented irregular rotation deployment tasks at the U.S. U.S. Hengtian Base in Japan to strengthen reconnaissance activities for North Korean nuclear guidance.
RQ-4 Global Eagle Unmanned Scouting aircraft can be used to identify objects that are only 0.3 meters on the ground by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and photoelectric infrared (EO · IR) at a height of 20 kilometers.From 38 to 42 hours, the cruise radius is 3,000 kilometers, and the surveillance scope exceeds the entire Korean Peninsula.