Photo: A Global Hawk spy drone is prepared for a night mission at an undisclosed location in the Middle East. (Supplied: US Air Force)
Revealed: US Flew Spy Drone Missions From Australia -- ABC News (Australia)
The United States flew highly classified Global Hawk spy drone missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006.
The operations were detected by a group of Adelaide aviation historians who had a member monitoring aircraft radio frequencies 20 hours a day.
With a wingspan greater than a 737 airliner and a $200 million price tag, the RQ-4 Global Hawk is the biggest, most expensive unmanned aerial vehicle to ever take to the skies.
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My Comment: Details of these flights are murky, but Australia must have been impressed by the results in order to be doing this.
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