NATO will spend 3 billion euros on the program Global Hawk

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NATO will spend 3 billion euros on the program Global Hawk


NATO will spend 3.0 billion euros ($ 3.9 billion) on the purchase and operation of five US unmanned aerial vehicles over the course of 20 in five years to fill the gap that was discovered during the Libyan air operation.

Allies will spend at least 1 a billion euros to purchase Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles from Northrop Grumman. According to an official who did not wish to give his name, the price includes ground support stations, image analysis technologies and operator training. He also believes that the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles, which will be located at the NATO airbase at Sigonella in Sicily, will cost the alliance another 2 billion euros over the next two decades.

While the European Air Force conducted most of the bombing in Libya last year, they relied on unmanned aerial vehicles provided by the United States to identify and hit targets during the campaign.

The NATO defense ministers, after two decades of arguing about its funding, eventually agreed to fund the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) program.

Unmanned aerial vehicles will be acquired by common means of thirteen NATO countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United States. Aircraft will be available to all twenty-eight allies, who will bear the costs of their operation. France and the United Kingdom will contribute to the program, mainly by providing their own reconnaissance aircraft.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the AGS program as "a vivid example of resource sharing by the alliance during a time when the economic crisis cuts defense budgets."
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  1. KAV
    KAV
    +6
    17 February 2012 06: 53
    Eight of the thirteen listed NATO countries come from the Warsaw Pact. All the freebie is over, now you have to pay the money.
    1. +3
      17 February 2012 07: 24
      most importantly, they don’t yet understand why they need these things ...
  2. itr
    +4
    17 February 2012 07: 07
    The price tag is just horseback to buy 5 pieces.
    and thieves say laughing
    1. Neighbor
      +1
      17 February 2012 07: 29
      Do not say - it turns out $ 800.000.000 - one drone !!! 24bn rubles !!!!! A submarine, like with weapons, costs 20 billion rubles. And then what?
      What a disagreement it turns out !!! Obviously! Here the price is the limit - well, even a billion p. - for one drone - but not 24bn. A fighter costs 1 billion. Tank - half - billion rubles.
  3. 0
    17 February 2012 07: 22
    Now, if the money allocated to the Mistral troughs were spent on the development of technologies and the purchase of Russian UAVs, the benefits of these costs would be an order of magnitude more ... in Chechnya, they can be used to solve the problems of detecting, tracking and destroying bandits ... rather than putting how much in vain ...
  4. Dimitrxnumx
    0
    17 February 2012 08: 45
    Looks like cunning amers have sold tail and ears from a dead donkey. Yes, while they decided to return the money spent on the development of drones. Bravo! I applaud while standing. I wonder how amers so divorced them?
  5. karla
    +3
    17 February 2012 08: 51
    The conversation is about 20 years, the sum of about 150 lemons per year. Including staff training (for 20 years it will change at least 5 times) stations + planes + upgrades. Absolutely real prices
  6. dred
    -2
    17 February 2012 12: 29
    Global is not such a bad chopper. Nothing our anti-aircraft gunners will shoot them down.
  7. Alexey Tyrdanov
    0
    8 February 2013 19: 28
    i love Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk

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