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发帖数: 395 | 1 先是去年说停买Block 30，现在说下个财年要停飞。主要是因为全球鹰比U-2还费钱，
空军想省钱多买几架F-35。而且还另有秘密平台可遂行全球鹰的部分任务。分析人士猜
测，全球鹰不具隐身性能，将被秘密研发的远程隐身侦察机取代。
USAF can perform parts of Global Hawk mission set with "classified platform"
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Dave Majumdar
on April 18, 2013 9:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) |
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The US Air Force does not intend to keep the Block 30 Northrop Grumman RQ-4B
Global Hawk in service past the end of calendar year 2014 because the
Lockheed Martin U-2 and other "classified platforms" can take-over its
mission, senior service leaders told the US Congress on 17 April. However,
service officials acknowledge that it will be hard to convince Congress to
go along with the USAF's plans.
"We did not do that without carefully considering how we'd cover that
mission with the U-2 and other classified platforms," says Lt Gen Charles
Davis, military deputy for the office of the assistant secretary of the air
force for acquisitions. Davis says that further discussions of those
classified capabilities would have to be conducted behind closed doors. "
There are systems out there that can do this in a variety of different ways,
" he says.
The USAF would like to use money already appropriated for three additional
Global Hawks to help buy back between three and five Lockheed F-35
production aircraft that the service expects it will have to cut later in
fiscal year 2013, Davis says. The USAF also hopes to use part of the money
to try restoring flying hours for portions of its operational combat
aircraft fleet it was forced to ground in recent weeks.
Analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group says that among the classified
platforms in question could potentially be a long-range stealth
reconnaissance aircraft that has long been rumored to be flying in the
Nevada desert. While it is hard to say for sure, it would make sense for
such a platform to have low observable characteristics and have high
altitude capability, he says. Given the lack of information, it is difficult
to say if such a platform is manned or unmanned, however an unmanned
aircraft would have far greater endurance. It could potentially be part of
the USAF's long range strike family of systems--which includes a new bomber,
cruise missile, electronic attack capabilities and hardware, Aboulafia says.
USAF intelligence chief, Lt Gen Larry James, speaking at an Air Force
Association sponsored breakfast on 18 April, declined to comment on what
classified platforms might compliment the U-2 to fulfill the Global Hawk's
mission. But James did say that in the future the USAF hopes to gather and
process intelligence data from "all sources" including satellites, manned
and unmanned platforms among others for operations in an anti-access/area
denial (A2/AD) environment.
For penetrating intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, the USAF
would rely on the Lockheed F-22 Raptor and F-35, James says. But those
aircraft cannot yet download the data they gather to the intelligence
analysts located at the service's distributed common ground stations. "That'
s a desire, we don't necessarily have the money to do that right now," James
says. "But we're thinking about how do you go after that." | f****i
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: 先是去年说停买Block 30，现在说下个财年要停飞。主要是因为全球鹰比U-2还费钱，
: 空军想省钱多买几架F-35。而且还另有秘密平台可遂行全球鹰的部分任务。分析人士猜
: 测，全球鹰不具隐身性能，将被秘密研发的远程隐身侦察机取代。
: USAF can perform parts of Global Hawk mission set with "classified platform"
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: Dave Majumdar
: on April 18, 2013 9:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) |
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: The US Air Force does not intend to keep the Block 30 Northrop Grumman RQ-4B
: Global Hawk in service past the end of calendar year 2014 because the
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