PALMDALE, Calif. - Northrop Grumman and EADS Defence & Security (DS) introduced the first Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system in an unveiling ceremony Thursday in Palmdale. The Euro Hawk marks the first international configuration of the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance UAV, and solidifies Northrop Grumman's first transatlantic cooperation with Germany and DS. More than 300 employees from Northrop and DS and officials from the German Air Force and Ministry of Defence attended. The aircraft will be equipped with German sensors. (Source: Globe Newswire, 10/08/09) Gulf Coast note: Global Hawks are built in part in Moss Point, Miss. EADS and Northrop are also teamed up in the competition to build aerial tankers for the Air Force. If they win, the planes would be assembled in Mobile, Ala.
