PHOTO OP: US Navy accepts E-2D

Northrop Grumman delivered the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye to the US Navy Atlantic Fleet today at Norfolk naval base in Virginia. Chief of Naval Operations Adm Gary Roughead formally accepted the E-2D from Gary Ervin, Northrop Grumman's president of the aerospace systems sector.

To read our recently published technical description on E-2D, click on this link: E-2D may not look pretty, but packs new punch

Here's a low-res copy of Flightglobal artist Giuseppi Picarella's cutaway drawing for the E-2D, which published as a poster in last week's magazine.