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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

US orders three E-2D Hawkeyes

The U.S. Navy gave the formal green light Monday to begin the next production phase of its E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning aircraft.

The Navy awarded Northrop Grumman a $408 million contract modification for three of the next-generation planes to be built in the Pilot Production phase of the program. The pact was announced two months after the first.

The Advanced Hawkeye is slated for operational deployment in 2011 and will provide a significant technology jump for Navy aviators who use the plane to both detect potential surface and air threats and as an airborne command-and-control platform.

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