E-2D Advanced Hawkeye - Less than a year out.

[snake020]

E-2D Advanced Hawkeye unveiled

http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/pages/news_releases.html?d=118386

Maybe you'll get this one someday MB

 

[raptor10]

I thought MB was going C-2's?

 

[MasterBates]

They said the same thing about flying the MH-60R when I started in HSL...

Personally, I'm holding out for the C-2B.. Hey, the C-2A's only 43 years old, can we get a new model please?

 

[bunk22]

:sleep_125 :sleep_125 :sleep_125

 

[TheBubba]

I'm assuming the major difference between the E-2D and the Hawkeye2000 is the electronics? Airframe and prop look the same.

 

[scoober78]

I'm assuming the major difference between the E-2D and the Hawkeye2000 is the electronics? Airframe and prop look the same.

Did you read the article?

 

[raptor10]

It's an AESA bird but thanks to engineering magic it still needs a dome???

 

[TheBubba]

I tried to...I read the word RADAR and fell asleep.

 

[MasterBates]

I tried to...I read the word RADAR and fell asleep.

Only interested in Detecting & Jammin Bubba?

Oh, and if it is a AESA, does the dome still turn?

 

[TheBubba]

Only interested in Detecting & Jammin Bubba?

Oh, and if it is a AESA, does the dome still turn?

Pretty much... I wanna know if its there so I can turn it off... at least that's what I hope to be doing... can't count those pesky chickens before they're hatched.

 

[raptor10]

U.S. Builds new flying radar... wow soviet... I mean russian reporting hasn't got any better

 

[snake020]

U.S. Builds new flying radar... wow soviet... I mean russian reporting hasn't got any better

The article says "The U.S. Air Force plans to acquire 75 E-2D models in the next ten years to replace E-2C Hawkeyes built in the 1970s and 1980s."

 

[Single Seat]

Radar sounds pretty eyewatering, wonder if this one is gonna look like it's about to shake itself apart in tension like the old ones.

 

[PropStop]

Still ugly.

 

[Single Seat]

Says the P-3 guy. At least it has a tailhook.