U.S. Air Force to move Global Hawk drone unit to Tokyo from Guam

A U.S. Air Force unit operating Global Hawk surveillance drones will be relocated from Andersen base in Guam to Yokota Air Base in Tokyo beginning this summer, Japanese Defense Ministry officials said Friday.Three RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and about 150 personnel are expected to move to the U.S. air base in western Tokyo in phases, with no new facilities planned for the deployment, they said.The high-altitude, long-endurance drones are capable of wide-area surveillance and long-range intelligence gathering.They have previously been deployed temporarily to Yokota Air …READ FULL ARTICLE