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BAMS-D Global Hawk Ends 13-Year Navy Deployment

Thursday, June 23rd, 2022

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BAMS-D Global Hawk Ends 13-Year Navy Deployment

The last Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) returned from U.S. 5th Fleet to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. on June 17 after a 13-year deployment. (Photo: Northrop Grumman via U.S. Navy).

This month the Navy finished the deployment of its last Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) maritime variant of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The BAMS-D was originally deployed to the 5th Fleet in 2009 for a six-month concept demonstration. The Navy originally bought five BAM-Ds from the Air Force for the demonstration deployment before it planned to move on to the MQ-4C Triton UAS. The Navy intended to use the BAMS-D to determine…

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