'We're excited to have the opportunity to continue producing APY-9 radars for the Navy's use on its
Advanced Hawkeye aircraft and to continue supporting our customers with performance upgrades on a regular basis,' Ken Kaminski, Airborne & National Surveillance Radar program director, said.
To expedite the downed C/KC130Ts' return to service, the Navy, selected as a replacement propeller the eight-bladed NP2000--the same one used on the E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound--and originally planned to include the upgrade in its fiscal 2019 budget.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- The US government gave preliminary approval for the sale of nine E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to Japan for an estimated $3.14 billion, according to the Pentagon.
This modification provides for the procurement of one Japan configuration E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for the government of Japan.
Northrop Grumman will supply Japan with one E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye aircraft under from Naval Air Systems Command contract worth more than $153.2 million, according to the Defense Department.
The Japan Ministry of Defense selected the E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye in 2014 to fulfill the nation's airborne early warning requirements.
M2 EQUITYBITES-November 28, 2017-Japan's E-2D
advanced Hawkeye first flight completed by Northrop Grumman
Department of Defense has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract for its planned foreign military sale of an E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye to Japan, according to UPI.
The E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) Oct.
During the summer of 2012, VX-1 (my squadron), along with additional aircrew and maintenance personnel from VAW-120 (assigned as trusted agents), were midway through our Initial Operational Testing and Evaluation (IOT&E) for the new E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye. We were on detachment to NAS Fallon to participate in Air Wing Fallon as observers supporting operational testing and evaluation of our four aircraft.
The E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye couples a newly designed electronically scanned radar with a matching suite of sensors, avionics, processors, software and displays to provide the most technologically advanced command and control capability available worldwide.
Northrop Grumman has proposed to update the airframes with new components that would be common with the Navy's E-2D
Advanced Hawkeye radar plane, which the company expects to begin building in 2015.