USAF retires BACN EQ-4B Global Hawks

US Air Force (USAF) Northrop Grumman EQ-4B Block 20 Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) Global Hawk - serial 04-2018 ‘GF’ - made the type’s final landing back at Grand Forks Air Force Base (AFB), North Dakota, on July 29. To mark retirement of the unmanned BACN EQ-4B, as it taxied in it was welcomed by a traditional water cannon salute from the base fire department. The EQ-4B had been operated from Grand Forks by Air Combat Command’s 319th Reconnaissance Wing