w.r.t U-2, whats the chances they will change their mind again? Plus Global Hawk is good and quite asthetically pleasing to look at, but was not there some issues, which is why they postponed the Dragon Lady's retirement indefinitely?
Now suddenly they have magically reduced the costs of the GH (though haven't the Bundeswehr canned the EuroHawk and what happened to the proposed centralized NATO airborne recon force with GH combo with an Airbus A330 multi mission platform)
For the USN, part of the BAMS, teamed with P-8A, kind of makes some sense...