Bridging The Surveillance Gap

The E-2C Hawkeye is the United States Navy’s latest and most sophisticated Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft. From its above 25,000ft vantage point, the Hawkeye sees the earth’s surface out to a range of 200 miles and provides surveillance of over three million cubic miles of air space.

Of necessity, this five-place airborne tactical data system uses the latest high-speed digital processing techniques to perform the automatic surveillance, target identification, reporting and in­tercept control functions its missions demand. It is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art Advanced Radar Processing System (ARPS) which provides fully automatic detection and tracking over land or over water with simultaneous surveillance of air and surface traffic. An addition to its radar system, the E-2C system has a Passive Detection System (PDS) which automatically detects the presence, direction and identity of any traffic in a high signal-density environment.

The E-2C’s high powered, P Band radar can detect a variety of targets operating in the clutter from an extremely complex radar environment which in­cludes land or sea returns, elec­tromagnetic em1ss1ons, atmospheric disturbances and a maze of other mov­ ing targets both fast and slow, large and small.

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