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🇺🇸 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye
Air · Northrop Grumman (radar: Lockheed Martin) — ABD · 2014 (ABD Donanması IOC)
The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye is the only operational carrier-launched fixed-wing AEW aircraft; its UHF-band APY-9 AESA in a dorsal rotodome tracks hundreds of targets and, via CEC, cues a carrier strike group's fighters and ships far beyond their own sensors.
Specifications
- Type: Carrier-capable Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft
- Manufacturer / origin: Northrop Grumman (radar: Lockheed Martin AN/APY-9) · USA
- Dimensions: Length 17.6 m · wingspan 24.56 m · height ~5.58 m · rotodome diameter 7.3 m
- Max takeoff weight: ~26,000 kg (57,500 lb)
- Engine: 2× Rolls-Royce T56-A-427A turboprops, each ~5,100 shp · 8-blade NP2000 composite propeller
- Speed / ceiling: Max ~650 km/h (350 knots) · service ceiling ~10,600 m
- Range / endurance: ~2,708 km (1,462 nm) · 8+ hours with aerial refueling (time on station nearly doubled)
- Sensor: AN/APY-9 UHF AESA radar — 360° continuous scanning; fighter-sized targets 300+ miles, 600+ target tracking
- Crew: 5 persons (2 pilots + 3 mission systems operators)
- Service year: First flight 2007 · US Navy IOC 2014 · still in production
Beats: E-2C Hawkeye (ABD) — APY-9 AESA, APS-145'e göre ~3 kat tespit menzili ve çok daha fazla hedef takibi sunar, Saab GlobalEye (İsveç) — GlobalEye kara-üslü bir iş jeti AEW'idir; E-2D ise uçak gemisinden kalkıp organik deniz hava grubuna entegre olabilen tek operasyonel sabit-kanat AEW'dir, Ka-31 AEW helikopteri (Rusya) — sabit-kanatlı E-2D çok daha yüksek irtifa, menzil, havada kalış ve CEC veri füzyonu sağlar
Loses to: E-7 Wedgetail (Avustralya/ABD) — daha büyük gövde, daha geniş ekip ve çok daha uzun menzil/havada kalış sunan kara üslü AEW&C, E-3 Sentry AWACS (ABD/NATO) — çok daha büyük radar anteni ve operatör kabini ile geniş alan kapsamında üstün, KJ-2000 / KJ-500 (Çin) — büyük gövdeli kara üslü AWACS olarak daha fazla operatör ve daha geniş antenli AESA taşır
The E-2D is the 'eye and brain in the sky' of a carrier group: through Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) and NIFC-CA it can pass over-horizon tracks to guide SM-6 missiles — a genuine force multiplier. Land-based AEW like GlobalEye or E-7 offer longer endurance and bigger crews, but none matches the E-2D's organic carrier integration. With AESA, aerial refueling and Block II software it is set to serve into the 2040s.
Related systems
Same manufacturer (Northrop Grumman (radar: Lockheed Martin) — ABD): B-21 Raider, RQ-4 Global Hawk, AGM-88 HARM / AARGM-ER
Related systems (Air): KAAN, Bayraktar KIZILELMA, ANKA-3, Bayraktar TB2, Bayraktar Akıncı, Vyriy OPTO 10, Skydagger, AKBABA, GÖKTUĞ (Gökdoğan/Bozdoğan), SOM
