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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

U.S. Navy Improves E-2C Radar Plane

E-2C Hawkeye
When it comes time for the E-2C Hawkeye to “phone home” — with chatter or information — the aircraft may soon have several new ways to do that.

“We’re experimenting with Voice Over Internet Protocol and HF [high-frequency] chat,” said U.S. Navy Capt. Steve Rorke, E-2C foreign military sales officer, during a briefing at the Dubai Air Show last month.

It’s part of a plan to make the Hawkeye part of a decentralized and open-architecture network, with each platform able to plug in and share information with another, Rorke said.

“We want it to be like the Internet,” he said. “We don’t care where the data comes from. We just want it.”

The Navy and the contractor team of Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and L-3 Communications’ Randtron Antenna Systems are developing a new radar and electronically scanned array (ESA) antenna for a new Hawkeye designated the E-2D.

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