Japan To Decide On Global Hawk Order

By Bradley Perrett
Beijing and Guam

Japan is likely to decide by year-end whether to order Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk surveillance aircraft that could later be upgraded to reinforce the country’s ballistic missile defenses.

The decision has been brewing for years and is now due to appear in the National Defense Program Guideline, which will set out future military policy when it is published this ...

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