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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      A large drone aircraft sits in a parking lotAn RQ-4 Global Hawk sits on the flightline at Yokota Air Base, Japan, May 2, 2023. U.S. Pacific Air Forces utilize RQ-4 Global Hawks to provide theater-wide enduring operational support as part of maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe)
                
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PACAF RQ-4 Global Hawks arrive at Yokota Air BasePublished May 28, 2023
                    
                    By Yasuo Osakabe
                    
                    
                    374th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
            **YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan (AFNS)  --****U.S. Pacific Air Forces** began positioning **RQ-4 Global Hawks** at **Yokota Air Base**, Japan, from **Andersen Air Force Base**, Guam, May 15 to provide theater-wide enduring operations in support of maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific.

The Global Hawk’s mission is to provide a broad range of U.S. intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to support joint forces, and Allies and partners in worldwide peacetime, contingency and crisis operations.

The Global Hawk serves as a high-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted and unarmed, aerial reconnaissance system. The aircraft provides persistent, day and night, high-resolution, all-weather imagery of large geographic areas with an array of integrated sensors and cameras.​







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    ​The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft with an integrated sensor suite that provides global all-weather, day or night intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability. Global Hawk's mission is to provide a broad spectrum of ISR collection capability to support joint combatant forces in worldwide peacetime, contingency and wartime operations. The Global Hawk provides persistent near-real-time coverage using imagery intelligence (IMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT) and moving target indicator (MTI) sensors.
 The Global Hawk also supports humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations such as during **Operation Tomodachi**, when the Defense Department mobilized 24,000 service members to assist Japan with disaster relief after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the northeastern Honshu coast March 11, 2011, resulting in a tsunami that flooded the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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