Global Hawk has had very little advancements in years, while the latest predator now has stealth technology, can cruise at 400 knots and can land and take off of an aircraft carrier on top of maintaing weapons capability and now being jet propelled. I lean towards the UAV with the most to offer and it ain't Global Hawk.
The Global Hawk and the Predator are two very different UAVs. However, if compared, the surveillance capabilities cannot be matched by the Predator. The predator, in comparison, is a low cost vechicle that the US can rely on. The Global Hawk is a much larger aircraft capable of cruising at much higher altitude, covering a larger area of surveillance, and can survey for a greater deal of time. The purpose of the Global Hawk was surveillance, and it does it exceptionally well. Look it up.
Like the video very funny. BUt the gobal hawk and the preditor are two very valueble wepons not only on the war aginst terror but also drug smuggleing,and other typs of illegal activity where you don't need military might both are effective tools
And neither one can occupy territory. Neither one can commit without command. All these big expensive toys, and the military still hasn't updated the M16 (which has been in service since 1957!). Shows where your priorities lie, you armchair commandos.
South Korea has asked the United States to sell its Global Hawks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), saying it is necessary to boost its surveillance over North Korea.
The Global Hawk (Tier II+) High-Altitude, Long-Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (HAE UAV) program is an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) designed to satisfy the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office's (DARO) goal of providing extended reconnaissance capability to the Joint Force commander. Of the six that had been built, three were lost in mishaps.
One was lost in December 1999, when an official incorrectly programmed the UAV to taxi at 155 nautical miles per hour.
The predator B will whoop the crap out of any UAV out there right now. How are you supposed to identify targets that are tough for ground troops to see at 65k? Ew 10k flight hours, the Predators do an average of 3,000 hours a month per deployment site. Why hasn't the air force and army signed any big money to the global hawk and went with the Predator, hmm maybe because the global hawk is crap. Its like the wright bros vs. the F-22!
@barracudamuscle actually, global hawk is reconaisance, ( i can't spell). it's flies higher than most other uav's, especially predator which actually flies pretty low, it's faster, at 500 notical miles per hour, anywhere in the globe in a matter of hours, and can tell things up to a couple hundred miles, as well as find things such as a car that's getting away,
on the other hand, if you want to bomb the shit out of something, go for the predator, but don't use it for recon.
If flying more than 10000 hours in surveilance missions, and neing the UAV that has identified the most high-value targets during operations on the Middle East is not "doing something," then I don't know what "something" is.
I don't think they're going to find any of that with the Predator's rinky dink EO/IR...
Ohh, and 3000 lbs of payload... How high can the Pred B fly again? Ohh, not 65 kft? Boo. Poor thing
Global Hawk has had very little advancements in years, while the latest predator now has stealth technology, can cruise at 400 knots and can land and take off of an aircraft carrier on top of maintaing weapons capability and now being jet propelled. I lean towards the UAV with the most to offer and it ain't Global Hawk.
alexegz 7 months ago
The Global Hawk and the Predator are two very different UAVs. However, if compared, the surveillance capabilities cannot be matched by the Predator. The predator, in comparison, is a low cost vechicle that the US can rely on. The Global Hawk is a much larger aircraft capable of cruising at much higher altitude, covering a larger area of surveillance, and can survey for a greater deal of time. The purpose of the Global Hawk was surveillance, and it does it exceptionally well. Look it up.
phu2006 3 years ago 5
Like the video very funny. BUt the gobal hawk and the preditor are two very valueble wepons not only on the war aginst terror but also drug smuggleing,and other typs of illegal activity where you don't need military might both are effective tools
magnavtwin750 4 years ago 6
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And neither one can occupy territory. Neither one can commit without command. All these big expensive toys, and the military still hasn't updated the M16 (which has been in service since 1957!). Shows where your priorities lie, you armchair commandos.
Go infantry!
manglermagoo 4 years ago
South Korea has asked the United States to sell its Global Hawks, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), saying it is necessary to boost its surveillance over North Korea.
DASHDOT2 4 years ago
clever, well done. hahahaha
Postie1 4 years ago
The Global Hawk (Tier II+) High-Altitude, Long-Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (HAE UAV) program is an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) designed to satisfy the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office's (DARO) goal of providing extended reconnaissance capability to the Joint Force commander. Of the six that had been built, three were lost in mishaps.
One was lost in December 1999, when an official incorrectly programmed the UAV to taxi at 155 nautical miles per hour.
elgatoso 5 years ago
The predator B will whoop the crap out of any UAV out there right now. How are you supposed to identify targets that are tough for ground troops to see at 65k? Ew 10k flight hours, the Predators do an average of 3,000 hours a month per deployment site. Why hasn't the air force and army signed any big money to the global hawk and went with the Predator, hmm maybe because the global hawk is crap. Its like the wright bros vs. the F-22!
barracudamuscle 5 years ago
@barracudamuscle actually, global hawk is reconaisance, ( i can't spell). it's flies higher than most other uav's, especially predator which actually flies pretty low, it's faster, at 500 notical miles per hour, anywhere in the globe in a matter of hours, and can tell things up to a couple hundred miles, as well as find things such as a car that's getting away,
on the other hand, if you want to bomb the shit out of something, go for the predator, but don't use it for recon.
linksfood 1 year ago
If flying more than 10000 hours in surveilance missions, and neing the UAV that has identified the most high-value targets during operations on the Middle East is not "doing something," then I don't know what "something" is.
I don't think they're going to find any of that with the Predator's rinky dink EO/IR...
Ohh, and 3000 lbs of payload... How high can the Pred B fly again? Ohh, not 65 kft? Boo. Poor thing
angelcar22 5 years ago
HAH. Good stuff. XD
SonicGodzillaFan 5 years ago