Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye

The milestone clears the upgrade for the carrier-based airborne early warning aircraft to move toward a critical design review in 2025.

The U.S. Navy on April 18 received its first two Textron T-54A Multiengine Training System aircraft.

AIDC said the ROCAF has six E-2Ks, although one was reportedly written off following a belly landing in 2022. Taiwan is also seeking to acquire six new E-2Ds.

It increasingly seems that the only replacement for the Boeing E-3 Sentry is another Boeing aircraft.

As E-2Cs retire, the service begins phased upgrades to the E-2D fleet, ending with the biggest modernization since it began fielding Advanced Hawkeyes in 2007.

CVN 73 aims to shake off its reputation from prolonged maintenance and bring new capabilities to the Pacific.

The U.S. has delivered the first Boeing E-767 AWACS aircraft with an enhanced mission-computing upgrade to the Japan Air Self Defense Force.

The Japan Air Self Defense Force is looking to buy five more Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes to supplement its airborne early warning capabilities.

NATO has received information on Boeing’s E-7, Northrop Grumman’s E-2 Hawkeye and Saab’s GlobalEye as it considers an interim AEW platform.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The survey proposes to save the Navy billions of dollars that would be otherwise spent on qualifying a trainer jet to land aboard an aircraft carrier.

The U.S. Army’s next installment of Project Convergence—an experiment that seeks to link disparate military platforms—will involve all three services and focus on maximizing the use of data and sharing it across the joint force, according to the deputy commander of Army Futures Command.

The fiscal 2022 spending request forwarded to Congress on May 28 proposes fewer units of aircraft across all fleets, including fighters; mobility; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and rotorcraft.