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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.
An AEW aircraft is an airborne radar system generally used to detect incoming aircraft, ... Grumman E-2 Hawkeye: US: Production: Propeller: 1960: 276: 2 engines ...
A Royal Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry over North Yorkshire. An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and other incoming projectiles at long ranges, as well as performing command and control of the battlespace in aerial engagements by informing and directing friendly fighter and attack ...
Grumman E-2A Hawkeye. The introduction of the Grumman WF-2 Tracer (later the E-1 Tracer) carrier-based airborne early warning aircraft in 1958 with the AN/APS-82 radar followed by the Grumman E-2 Hawkeye with the AN/APS-120 radar in 1964 doomed the surface and submarine radar pickets as carrier escorts (later E-2 models would see the APS-120 ...
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.
Northrop Grumman (NOC) will procure two engineering development model operational test program sets for supporting the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.
Purchase the AN/APS-125 pulse-Doppler radar system and its associated avionics, as fitted to the E-2 Hawkeye, and fit them into the Nimrod. Purchase the AN/APS-125 radar and combine it with a British avionics package. Purchase the rotodome and antenna from the E-2 and combine with a British radar transmitter, receiver and avionics package.
One company, however, quickly scooped up nearly 65% of the funds on offer: Northrop Grumman . The contract in question, worth $617 Northrop Wins $617 Million E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Contract