Editor's Choice: 'Global Hawk missing.' On the alert in Nikkei Asia's newsroom
On Tuesday afternoon, the Japan Self-Defense Force s Global Hawk aircraft went missing off the coast of Tottori prefecture. The loss of one of Japan s three Global Hawks is significant, but the cause is still being investigated. The aircraft is capable of continuing to fly if communications are lost and can return to a predetermined location autonomously. The SDF is still probing the cause, so caution remains warranted.
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