Despite the loss, the crash on Friday would have been a favor for some Air Force planners who wanted to start retiring some of the older models of the Global Hawk. The only problem is that the drone which crashed was the newer Block 40 model, and planners wanted to push out the older Block 20 and Block 30 models, according to Defense News.

An Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk, which costs more than an F-35 jet, crashed in a rural field north of Grand Forks Air Force Base on Friday.
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