Despite losing to Saab on the deal to supply airborne early warning aircraft to the UAE, Northrop Grumman believes there are other opportunities to sell the E-2D to existing customers as well as new customers.
By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ernest R. Scott/Released (An E-2D Hawkeye flies over Naval Base Norfolk) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Jerry Spruill, sector director with Northrop’s international mission solutions business, told Reuters: “We’re in the early days of E2-D opportunities.”
“We feel that the international potential for the E-2D is very bright.”