This morning an USAF Northrop Grumman RQ-4B “Global Hawk” (reg. number 11-2047 or 11-2048 callsign FORTE10) left NAS Sigonella around 3 AM UTC eastbound. We’ve lost the signal south of Crete when the Global Hawk was flying eastbound, probably to make a surveillance mission over eastern Mediterranean Sea, off Syria.
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In these minutes (12AM UTC) the drone is tracked, always south of Crete but flying instead westbound. The Global Hawk is back to NAS Sigonella were is expected in around 1 hour.
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