Originally Posted by
KPax
I heard a story whilst I was at Akr where they were talking about a trial between the Global Hawk and the U2, at the end of the sortie they cut the comms link, the Global Hawk would eventually have ditched at a location, the U2 pilot would have flown the aircraft back. Sounds a bit simple but makes sense.
Probably true then, not so much any more. I'd expect the Global Hawk by now to have the needed landing data for every field within range. Data storage has become really cheap.