The most-watched aircraft on the flight tracking App Flightradar 24 is a Global Hawk unmanned spy drone that has been flying over the Balck Sea just south of Russia’s naval base at Sevastopol.
Over 20,000 people are watching the activities of the Global Hawk which has a call sign of “Forte10”.
The $170 million aircraft is piloted remotely and operates from Italy.
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It has an endurance of about 32 hours and can fly over 22,000km at an altitude of 18,000m.
UPDATE: Here is today’s mission.
Here is a Global Hawk.
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