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The Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather, carrier-capable tactical airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft. This twin-turboprop aircraft was designed and developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s by the Grumman Aircraft Company for the United States Navy as a replacement for the earlier, piston-engined E-1 Tracer, which was rapidly becoming obsolete.
VAW-117 was the first fleet squadron to receive the HE-2K variant of the Hawkeye and also the first fleet Hawkeye squadron to receive the Cooperative Engagement Capability system (CEC). [ 3 ] In May 2005, VAW-117 deployed on USS Nimitz (CVN-68) with CVW-11 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom .
A VAW-125 E-2D Hawkeye lands at MCAS Iwakuni on 9 August 2017. In January 2010, the squadron was deployed to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in support of Operation Unified Response providing humanitarian assistance following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The squadron flew missions to provide communications relay, command and control, and ...
Two E-2D from VAW-121 over Fort Jefferson. On returning from a mission on 31 March 2010, an E-2C Hawkeye suffered a catastrophic engine failure. The condition of the starboard engine made the aircraft almost impossible to control. The pilot, LT Steven Zilberman, made sure the aircraft stayed level so the other three crew members could bail out ...
Northrop Grumman won a pair of Pentagon contracts Tuesday, both benefiting the U.S. Navy, and both relating to the Navy's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft. The smaller of the ...
Northrop Grumman Corp's (NOC) business unit, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., wins a modification contract worth $353.6 million for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.
The Department of Defense awarded eight contracts Wednesday, worth just under $956 million in combined value. One company, however, quickly scooped up nearly 65% of the funds on offer: Northrop ...
The last Group II variant of the E-2C in the US Navy was retired on 19 November 2019 at a ceremony onboard Navy Station Norfolk. [3] The squadron then flew the E-2C Hawkeye 2000 until 1 June 2021. The squadron transitioned to the E-2D Hawkeye in 2021. At the same time CVW-8 was reassigned to USS Gerald R. Ford.