Japan’s ASDF lost an RQ-4B Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Sea of Japan, about 50 km north of Tottori.

Intelligence summary

Japan’s ASDF lost an RQ-4B Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Sea of Japan, about 50 km north of Tottori. Possible wreckage has since been spotted, and the ASDF now presumes the drone crashed. The unarmed ~$120 million+ drone was not on a training flight, though its mission remains undisclosed.