US Navy confident in E-2D progress
Military and industry experts developing the US Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye AEW aircraft have described the programme as 'healthy' as it performs to schedule and integrates modern technology.
With the aircraft set to have achieved IOC by 2014, manufacturer Northrop Grumman has delivered a total of seven aircraft to date, with two of these having been last year.
'We've increased the time that the decision-makers have to make decisions,' Peter Shepard, operations analyst/programme director, US Navy told the AEW and Battle Management conference in London on 17 January.
The platform is set to provide battle management C2 and '360 degree
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