E-2D Advanced Hawkeye with new aerial refueling capability successfully completes first flight
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Dec 17, 2016
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The first U.S. Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye equipped with aerial refueling. (Photo credit: John Germana, Northrop Grumman)
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has successfully completed the first flight of an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye equipped with aerial refueling (AR).
Under a 2013 engineering, manufacturing, and development (EMD) contract award, Northrop Grumman designed, developed, manufactured, and tested several sub-system upgrades necessary to accommodate an aerial refueling capability.
“The Northrop Grumman aerial refueling team continues to put outstanding effort into bringing this much-needed capability to the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and our warfighters who rely on it,” said Capt. Keith Hash, program manager, E-2/C-2 Airborne Tactical Data System Program Office (PMA-231).
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