Photo Courtesy - AeroVironment, Inc.(EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.) -- High over the Mojave desert, the Pentagon has been quietly testing a new unmanned plane that flies higher, soars longer and runs greener than anything in the Pentagon's arsenal.

The Global Observer, made by Monrovia, California-based AeroVironment Inc., is bigger than a 767 and flies in the stratosphere up to 65,000 feet, twice as high as Mount Everest -- out of sight and out of range of most anti-aircraft missiles.  From there it will be able to see 600 miles in every direction, enough to survey the entire country of Afghanistan.
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