美 해군의 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye 도입 조달 계획

 

美 해군이 항공모함에서 운용 중인 공중조기경보기 E-2C Hawkeye 의 개량형, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye 에

대한 저율생산분 (LRIP) 최종 물량에 대해서 국방성 산하 DAB (국방조달/획득위원회)  로 부터 최종 승인을

기다리고 있다는 Aviation Week 3월 15일字 기사 입니다.

 

2010년 7월말 E-2D 초기 생산분 2대가 美 해군에 정식으로 인도된 후, 지난 1월부터는 항공모항 USS Truman

호에서 함상운용 공중조기경보기로써 본격적인 항모 이/착함 시험비행을 실시하고 있습니다.

 

美 해군은 2019 회계년도까지 모두 75대의 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye 를 도입할 예정이며, IOC (초도작전운용

능력) 획득은 2012년을 목표로 하고 있습니다.

 

아래 태그에서 E-2D 로 검색을 하면 앞서 소개한 관련 소식들을 파악하실 수 있습니다.

 

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Final E-2D LRIP Lots Await DAB Approval

Aviation Week.com, 03/15/2011

Author : Graham Warwick

 

Approval for the final two low-rate initial production (LRIP) batches of Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft is on the agenda for a Defense Acquisition Board meeting planned for March 16.

 

Flight testing of the upgraded airborne early-warning aircraft, with its new electronically scanned APY-9 radar, is 91% complete and the overall system development and demonstration program is 96% complete, says U.S. Navy Capt. Shane Gahagan, Hawkeye program manager.

 

Flight testing of the Lockheed Martin-developed radar is complete and the remaining flights are focusing primarily on the integration of the Cooperative Engagement Capability and Link 16 data links, he says.

 

Two development and three pilot-production E-2Ds have been delivered. Four are in flight tests at NAS Patuxent River, Md., and one is at NAS Norfolk, Va., being used to train operational evaluators.

 

The third and fourth LRIP batches total 10 aircraft to be procured with fiscal 2011 and 2012 funding: five E-2Ds were purchased in the first two lots, which were approved in 2009. Full-rate production is scheduled to begin in fiscal 2013, with multi-year procurement planned to begin in fiscal 2014.

 

Plans call for 40 Advanced Hawkeyes to be purchased over a five-year, fiscal 2014-18 multiyear procurement (MYP). This would leave a final nine E-2Ds to be funded in fiscal 2019 to complete the planned 75-aircraft Navy program.

 

“We are trying to get a six-year MYP,” Gahagan says. This would save money, but requires approval by the Pentagon and Congress. “We are working through the issues, but everybody is on board,” he says.

 

The E-2D made its first carrier landings on the USS Truman in January, and operational evaluation is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2012. Initial operational capability is slated for 2015.

 

 

 ⓒ Northrop Grumman

 

  ⓒ Northrop Grumman

 

 ⓒ US Navy

 

  ⓒ US Navy