NATO receives final RQ-4D AGS aircraft
Northrop Grumman has delivered NATO's fifth and final RQ-4D Phoenix Alliance Ground Surveillance aircraft.
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 hours, originally starting from Palmdale, California.
Outside of the delivery, work will continue between the manufacturer to complete Handover of the AGS System to the NATO AGS Force (NAGSF).
“Once the NATO AGS system achieves Handover, NATO Commanders will have greater flexibility and redundancy to support the mission of protecting ground troops, civilian populations and international borders in peacetime and times of conflict as well as humanitarian missions during natural disasters,” Jane Bishop, VP manager, autonomous systems, Northrop Grumman.
The NATO AGS RQ-4D is based off the U.S. Air Force's wide area surveillance Global Hawk.
Chief among the high-altitude, long-endurance UAVs subsystems is a multi-platform radar technology insertion program radar, which 'provides leading-edge intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability that is able to deliver near real-time situational awareness 24 hours a day, seven days a week,' according to the manufacturer.
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