글로벌 호크, 국내 인도... '첩보위성급'으로 북 들여다본다 To improve South Korea's capability to collect and predict North Korea's military movements,... the country announced earlier this year that it was acquiring four U.S. Golden Hawk spy planes.
According to a local source, one of them is to arrive in South Korea before the end of the year.
Kim Ji-yeon reports.
A source within the South Korean military has confirmed that, among the four R-Q4 Global Hawks Seoul recently ordered from the U.S.,... one is set to arrive in South Korea this month.
The remaining three are due in the country by early next year at the latest.
The spy plane is touted as a powerful U.S. strategic asset that can monitor the entirety of North Korea.
A Global Hawk is estimated to be worth nearly 210-million U.S. dollars,... double that of a stealth F-35A fighter jet.
It can identify an object as small as a soccer ball from afar.
And since it's an unmanned aerial vehicle it can stay airborne 24 hours a day.
Once it's in the air... it can operate on reconnaissance missions covering 140-thousand square kilometers at an altitude of up to 20 kilometers.
According to local media outlets... South Korea's Air Force is training around eight pilots, four sensor monitoring personnel and 16 repair mechanics to manage the Global Hawks.
With their deployment of the Global Hawks, the planes are expected to greatly develop South Korea's capability to predict North Korea's military actions in advance.
However, the Glabla Hawks' arrival on the peninsula is expected to spark a fierce backlash from North Korea... which criticized South Korea in August as a "rash, risky military act."
Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News.
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