Massive US Spy Drone Returns to Black Sea Patrols – Monkey Viral

FORTE is back over the Black Sea

This morning around 5:00 a.m. CEST, a USAF Northrop Grumman RQ-4B (reg. 11-2046 – callsign FORTE10) took off from NAS Sigonella for a surveillance mission. So far, nothing unusual. What is interesting, however, is that for the first time in several months, the Global Hawk has returned to fly over the Black Sea, orbiting over the western part of the basin in international airspace. Indeed, we had not tracked any USAF drone missions over the Black…

The presentation of the technological novelty was also attended by Kyrylo Budanov, commander of the military intelligence unit of Group 13 - known by the call sign Thirteen - along with other HUR personnel, the Ukrinform agency reported. "These unmanned aircraft, deployed on the orders of General Budanov, have already successfully destroyed 21 enemy targets - thus setting a world record," the agency quoted Andriy Yusov, a member of the HUR, as s…

Massive US spy drone returns to Black Sea patrols – Monkey Viral

After a long pause, the U.S. Air Force has resumed high-altitude drone reconnaissance flights over the Black Sea. On May 17, a massive Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk, operating under the callsign FORTE 10, was spotted conducting surveillance operations along the Romanian coastline. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) departed from NATO’s Sigonella Air Base in […]