E-2 'Hawkeye' Aircraft | NAVAL AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING

The Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather, carrier-capable tactical airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft. This twin-turboprop aircraft was designed and developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s by the Grumman Aircraft Company for the United States Navy as a replacement for the earlier, piston-engined E-1 Tracer, which was rapidly becoming obsolete. The aircraft's performance has been upgraded with the E-2B, and E-2C versions, where most of the changes were made to the radar and radio communications due to advances in electronic integrated circuits and other electronics. The fourth major version of the Hawkeye is the E-2D, which first flew in 2007. The E-2 was the first aircraft designed specifically for its role, as opposed to a modification of an existing airframe, such as the Boeing E-3 Sentry. Variants of the Hawkeye have been in continuous production since 1960, giving it the longest production run of any carrier-based aircraft.
The E-2 also received the nickname "Super Fudd"[3] because it replaced the WF (later E-1) "Willy Fudd". In recent decades, the E-2 has been commonly referred to as the "Hummer" because of the distinctive sounds of its turboprop engines, quite unlike that of turbojet and turbofan jet engines. In addition to U.S. Navy service, smaller numbers of E-2s have been sold to the armed forces of Egypt, France, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, and Taiwan.
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E-2 'Hawkeye' Aircraft | NAVAL AIRBORNE EARLY WARNING

[@_Matsimus_]

My apologies for the 33 years since Pearl Harbor comment. I was pulling information from some sources and didn't realize my math was WAYYYY off and did not proof read my script. Sorry all.

[@niccatipay]

2020 must be wearing you down mate. No problem, as long as it gets corrected. Most importantly, stay healthy and be happy!

[@stevenstovall4491]

Stay good watched you since the switch to Brit to Canadian. Keep it up and stay safe out there :)

[@maxjones503]

No problem, I totally get it. I once read an article published in January 1942 which said it was last month! How confusing is that!?

[@niccatipay]

@@maxjones503 I think your soul traveled back in time man.

[@peterszar]

Well, I didn't catch that, guess that slightly debunks my praise of your accuracy. Guess it's true we can't all be perfect no matter what. Proof read or change your channel name to Dark D_c's, and the other Dark ???'s, channels names ha ha.

[@nikolas772]

When its 6am in germany and you just came home from drinking but you got to watch the new Matsimus video before going to sleep.

[@kobidavis1752]

9:20 pm here in San Francisco California

[@Geno_Tracks]

12:30AM Florida

[@nikolas772]

@@kobidavis1752 that is awesome😂😂

[@ibrahimadiop7074]

6:20 Maryland

[@MrSmetanka]

1:00 am Munich

[@indyjons321]

I love how the wings fold on this thing. I wish I had a Super Cub that did that.

[@markmcdowell5509]

SO MAKE ONE !!!

[@hawkeyeted]

Real estate is in short supply on the carrier.

[@flyboy38a]

I used to fly those pigs. And believe me they are pig to fly when trying to land abroad the carrier; no auto-throttles, no automation of any kind when landing. I checked into my squadron a week before Iraq invaded Kuwait and we headed over there right away on a ship that needed to be in the shipyards for a least a year...OH was that some fun working on CV-67 during that time. My squadron was the one you talked about that directed the F-14s during the MiG shoot downs near Libya. You are right in that it is an absolutely vital aircraft for the defense/early warning of the fleet. Unfortunately it does have its down sides with it design in that there are no ejection seats for the crew. That cost us a full crew due to a hydraulic fire that took out the flight controls. I understand the new ones have a lot more bells and whistles that make it a nicer plane to fly which I fully admit that I am jealous of. Thanks Mat for the trip down memory lane.

[@blazinchalice]

Your informed commentary is much appreciated! I have an uninformed question, however: Is the crew adequately shielded from that massive radar? I mean to ask, are there any deleterious effects from spending time under that massive radar?

[@flyboy38a]

@@blazinchalice I believe they are now since the windscreens are coated with gold substance to block out the radiation from the radar. However when I flew in them I was being hit by a fair amount of radiation so much so that when I used a camera in the cockpit it would shut off because its electronics were overwhelmed by the radar. I had to rap my camera up in aluminum foil to eventually get it to work. I also was told that the flight instruments had to have some special set-up so they too were not disrupted by the radar. I don't know if there have been any health issues associated with the exposure that we received but we always had that in the back of our minds. I know some of the radar operators that flew in the back of the aircraft would not come up to sit in the cockpit if they were given the opportunity to do so while the radar was operating.

[@flyboy38a]

@@faabill4953 I don't know if it does now since there have been so many upgrades to the radar system since my time, but back then we did not really work with ground targets. I know the radar worked best over water but we still used it to control aircraft over land as we did during Desert Storm. During missions were we would follow the strike group on their raids into Iraq we would actually fly in to Iraq as well so we could provide the necessary radar coverage especially when hitting targets around Baghdad. We were absolutely sitting ducks if the Iraqis had ever been able to launch fighters after us. The winds were so strong up at that altitude that when we turned southwest to head back to the carrier that our ground speed trying to leave Iraqi airspace was around 100 kts....Our take off airspeed is 105 kts. LOL...Took us forever to get back into safe airspace.

[@swaghauler8334]

@@flyboy38a I had a friend who worked on those (he was on the Big E). He told me that if the transmitting unit malfunctioned, NO crewman on the plane would reboot it (turn it off and back on) because it required a hammer and the sacrifice of a live chicken to get it turning again if it seized and you turned it off. He really HATED that particular radar system.

[@danieldunlap4077]

You guys didn't happen to locate the Japanese Fleet on its way to Pearl Harbor did you?

[@gjd8047]

A couple notes: -A modern aircraft carrier has 1 Hawkeye Squadron with 4 (E-2C) or 5 (E-2D) aircraft on board. Not "4 Squadrons." -The E-2D are new aircraft off the production line, not upgraded E-2Cs. -The crew in the back always consists of 3 Naval Flight Officers (Combat Information Center Officer, Air Control Officer, & Radar Officer). Not 2 NFO's and a "flight technician."

[@usnavypalawanhunter5737]

About the crew in the back, it didn't consist of all officers during my time. In fact, it never consisted of all officers at all when I was there. Don't know about now, though. The reason the flight tech was always there was because they were always avionics technicians whose knowledge and experience repairing the equipment was far superior to the officers. And they always consisted of senior NCOs from the VAW avionics shop. If the equipment broke down and couldn't be fixed, you had no mission. You'd have to uselessly fly back to the carrier and be absent at a time when potential threats needed to be spotted. Plus the flight techs were trained for command/control the same way the CICO and ACO were. Sure, the frontmost seat was called the Radar Officer position, but this didn't always mean an actual officer had to occupy it. When I was there, no officer ever did. As a PR for the E-2Bs of VAW-115 aboard the USS Midway, I would know.

[@hawkeyeted]

I was an E-2C Bubba for 23 years. Did three tours with VAW-117 Walbangers.

[@bobcranston3414]

Right there with you but with VAW-122.

[@richardthantzin1229]

Compact plane, but the E-2 Hawkeye's role in combat ~ massive.

[@KB4QAA]

The E-2B had the retracting radome for operations from older carriers in order to fit in the hangar deck. This was not needed on the E-2C/D.

[@SupersonicCheeseburger]

Pelican1984 would ya happen to have any more details on the retracting radome? Can’t find anything related to this smh

[@KB4QAA]

@@SupersonicCheeseburger The retracting mechanism was hydraulic.

[@herbboucher816]

4 E2Cs had retractable rotodomes to operate off of the oldest carriers in the 80s. Coral Sea and Midway.

[@StryderK]

The original requirement had the E-2 able to even operate on the modified Essex class carriers of WW II design. Hence why the Hawkeyes have that distinctive four vertical stab tail, to fit inside an Essex hanger. Grumman engineers warned the E-2 would be too big....Guess what? They were to big to operate off of an Essex!

[@brucelaughton3108]

@@StryderK The E-2 was not deployed on the 27Charlie (Essex mods) but they were capable of operating off of that class. My squadron VAW-111 did a night refresher deck on Lexington in the E-2B November '74. I did not enjoy it.......

[@duaneronan8199]

The fighters are NOT useless without the E2. Radically less effective, but hardly useless. Love your presentations. Keep up the good work.

[@TheNinjaDC]

What I always found fascinating is the fact the propeller driven E-2D cost more than the F22 or F35, COMBINED! The electronics in it are, just that insane and top secret.

[@dmac7128]

Even though the airframes are old, I would think that everything that could be replaced has been over the years. Considering all of the work to upgrade them the delta model, they will remain in service for a long time to come. One major upgrade for the Delta model other than the radar is the addition of the Navy Integrated Fire Control- Counter Air (NIFC-CA). This builds upon CEC by enabling all capable platforms to be networked together in which each unit has a single common tactical picture of the battlespace. It also enables weapons to be guided by multiple platforms to their targets even if the firing platform does not have contact on its own sensors.

[@AlexSDU]

Naval airplanes have shorter lifespan compared to Airforce's planes. Especially those that served aboard the carriers. Most of it due to the rough takeoff & landings the plane have to endure on the carrier, putting stress to the airframes.

[@thescarlethunter2160]

“ the strongest weapon is information ” -Ishigami Senku

[@meechmcbulge4427]

I just watched that Dr. Stone episode yesterday and got my orders to Hawkeyes today. Crazy you thought this comment

[@JD96893]

Cool looking plane!!! Amazing how these things land on carriers!

[@flyboy38a]

They are currently the biggest aircraft we bring aboard the carrier. When we land we have just under 10 feet on either side of our wings before we hit something. Maintaining center line when landing is so damn critical.

[@lcoudeur]

Actually the E-2C is also used by the French Navy of the Charles De Gaulle. The french goverment has ordered 3 new E-2D to replace these.

[@fredacevedo2871]

E2d is built on a new airframe with full life expectancy

[@TheWizardGamez]

this plane is the epitome of BIG BRAIN

[@andrewtaylor940]

Grumman used to have the most amazing setup for testing these beasts, plus the EA-6B Prowlers and EF-111 “Spark Varks” out at their Calverton Long Island facility. Picture a Microwave oven the size of a large hanger. With the walls and ceiling covered in these cone shaped sensor/projectors. A giant Faraday Cage that could also project all sorts of EM energy inside itself. The planes were brought in and hung from these massive Horse Hair straps. There could be no metal and no plastics anywhere in the building. Just the plane suspended from horse hair. Inside this thing they could test all of the various sensors and electronic warfare systems, plus subject the plains to incredible amounts of EM radiation. The test engineers used to leave their sandwiches on a planes wing to be heated up.

[@nscaledelights]

Thanks for the video this has to be one of my favorite planes and I will check out the Sentry video too.

[@mikes8586]

You mention the rotodome retracts 24 inches to store the aircraft. This has not been the case over the last 30 years. With the retirement oh the USS Coral Sea and Midway, the requirement to drop the dome to put it in the hangar is no longer valid. All carries can hold the E-2 with the dome fully raised

[@Sacto1654]

The availability of the E-2 is *THE* major reason why US Navy aircraft carriers are so effective. That's something the Soviets never mastered (relying on modified Tu-95's wasn't a great solution; even the British never really got decent AEW coverage with the Fairey Gannet AEW.3).

[@davidlarson7994]

Thanks for the memories. Was in VAW-125 aboard the Forrestal and Kennedy in the 70's

[@tanguygodeau7106]

Hey Matsimus! Great video ! Just a slight correction : the Hawkeye serves in the US Navy, but also in the French Navy (3 planes in total serving on board the Charles de Gaulle nuclear powered aircraft carrier) and in the Japanese Air Force (land based).

[@tankdriver65861]

The E2 is a fantastic Naval AEWAC platform. This is where I think the Americans have again got it right, instead of us in the UK, where we have a Merlin Crowsnest AEW helo, I would rather have an E2 any day of the week than a merlin AEW.

[@operator0]

You need CATOBAR aircraft carriers. I guess you guys decided to get two carriers instead of one by going with the V/STOL carriers. The French went with CATOBAR and they only have one carrier. They do have Hawkeyes though.

[@tankdriver65861]

operator0 ohh yeah, I understand the limitations, but if money wasn’t a barrier, E2’s would be on the carrier

[@2IDSGT]

If US starts building light carriers, there will be pressure to move toward a common VTOL platform to fill the AEW roll... likely a version of the V-22.

[@edwardweeden8837]

Just a trio of fun comments: (1): E-2s are the only planes on carriers that can move BACKWARDS under their own power across the FD due to their variable pitch propellers, and (2) squadron members are some of the most INSANE parties on Liberty I have ever had the privilege of knowing. (3) They make the best Air Bosses too (Respect to CDR W. R. Solms,Ranger, 1980-1).

[@piotrd.4850]

For some reason, I miss times when carriers had S-3 Vikings and A-6 Intruders on boards. Very impressive platforms, even if in shadow of F-14. I wonder, what both could do fitted and built using modern tech.... also: Soviets build eerily similiar Yak-44 with very advanced contra-rotating propellers, similar to An-70.

[@edwardweeden8837]

F14s didn’t cast much of a shadow, almost half of them were down for parts, avionics, hydraulics sensors or engine maintenance at any one point!

[@kevinkelly2513]

When I was a teenager, back in the early 1970's, my family was living near Jericho Turnpike in Huntington, New York. One afternoon I heard a rather loud airplane flying nearby. I looked out my bedroom window, and saw an E-2 flying about 150 feet AGL over the roadway. (Way below minimum FAA flight elevation.) I thought the plane was trying to made an emergency landing, but it kept on flying. My only other guess was that Grumman or the Navy was doing a radar test using the telephone company's microwave transmission tower at 40° 49' 49" N, 73° 27' 07" W

[@pikminlord343]

Glad you showcased this platform!

[@heyynow6176]

Another Incredible AMERICAN WEAPON!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

[@mhsvz6735]

Thank you for another excellent review!

[@gingergorilla695]

Loved seeing this thing, I love that we're still using turboprop after so long. If I had a request, would you consider reviewing the ov-10 bronco, another turboprop aircraft :)

[@edwardweeden8837]

Turboprops can dwell on station much longer - an essential part of their job.

[@coreymerrill3257]

This plane is an example of a mature technology. While it can be uograded with modern gear as time moves forward , nothing fundamentally changes, it very slowly will incrementally improve with new discoveries and better materials... Many things are mature tech now.

[@conflictmagazine]

Timely video, thanks man...I wasn't familiar with the E-2 when I started working on my gaming set up and managed to score a couple different small models. Didn't know about the problems with scanning land so that is helpful to know (the scenario I'm working on that involves this aircraft would have been working over land partially so the update info will prove very useful). What else can I say...GEAR PRON! (-:

[@sigmamale7241]

Wow! What a significant workhourse...Been faithfully serving Navy fleets, US and otherwise, for decades. Won't be replaced any time soon from what I understand!

[@thomasborgsmidt9801]

If you look into WW2 in the Pacific, the most characteristic thing was the devine confusion - it was not so much the information didn't exist; but it was not available at the right time at the right place. The admiral had to guess (wrong more often than not) and wait a God-awfull time before the PBY's got there - and (hopefully) back. The thing about the Hawkeye is the very low crew complement. OK, over time the computers have taken over much of the cleaning of the picture. The information I miss is how much the new propellers improve the time on station? It is characteristic enough for turboprop aircraft, that the engines themselves are pretty much what they were 50 years ago - just think Hercules, but the props have developed. The Hawkeye is very much an instance of don't fix it, if it isn't broken. I think the number of aircraft on board a carrier is due to having one airborne at any one time. Makes me think of the number of RDaAF Challenger aircraft. That is 4 with one being a VIP aircraft. In many ways the radar over the sea seems to be a simpler problem than over land. Compare to the E-3 Sentry,, that has a crew of 17-23.

[@DarksouIjah]

Love this plane. My father was chief safety inspector for it for decades. As a kid, I used to refer to it as the frisbee plane.

[@edwardweeden8837]

Respect to you both.

[@chcgo2undaground]

...grew up near Bethpage, NY, saw the E2 variants fly off from Grumman many times....

[@byronharano2391]

No joke. The Prop-wash from a E2 Hawkeye nearly blew me off my feet and rolled me down the flight deck of the USS Kitty Hawk in 1984. Those 8 bladed props do help...but don't under estimate the volume of air being moved by those huge propellers and powerful turboprop engines. Blow the squid down, oh blow the squid down, yo-ho blow the idiot Squid down...💨😣💥 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@LikeUntoBuddha]

These are the weapons and aircraft that make us special. They allow us to turn it up a nock higher than anyone else. I can imagine a Northrop Grumman E-1 Hawkeye in WW2.

[@yendak]

Hello Matsimus, I have a small suggestion: If you mention other vehicles in your videos, like around minute 1:58, I think it would be nice if you could show a picture of the vehicle that you mention for a few seconds. There are many vehicles that I don't know by name and it would be nice to get at least a glance on them without having to pause the video and looking them up. :)

[@ajburnett5640]

The videos of them doing land takeoffs, landings, and refueling are at Mcas iwakuni.

[@impacttrauma8696]

A couple of corrections. 1. The rotodome hasn’t been retractable since the E-2B, since newer carriers have more clearance on the hangar deck. 2. The SAR helo is actually the first off and the last on, in case anybody goes in the drink during flight ops.

[@edwardweeden8837]

Maybe he should’a added the phrase ‘fixed wing’

[@usnavypalawanhunter5737]

At 7:55, "Every carrier air wing includes four Hawkeye squadrons". No, a carrier air wing normally only includes ONE Hawkeye squadron, which normally consists of four E-2 Hawkeyes. If what you said were true, that would mean SIXTEEN Hawkeyes per aircraft carrier wing. No, you mean only four E-2 Hawkeyes per carrier air wing.

[@_Matsimus_]

Cool.

[@mohammadsaida4603]

Too nice video with clearly explaining E2 HockEYE 👏🏾👏🏾👍👍

[@davidty2006]

I have just played the old 2017 game known as Carrier deck and oh boy them hawkeyes are so important for spotting targets to get aircraft up and destroy them before the carrier is attacked.

[@PpAirO5]

I just need to thank you again for talking about aircrafts, even though it's not your "speciality." Keep up the good work 👍

[@WWeronko]

Thank you for the general view of the E-2 aircraft. You however, missed a few key points. The E-2D is not an upgraded E-2C. It is a newly built aircraft that has many hours left on its air-frame. The design in regards to the basic aircraft was changed to enhance maintainability and reliability. But it was not given added performance because its mission of command and control didn't require it to have hot fighter specifications. It has stayed much as it has been because that is what its mission optimizes it to be. The other key aspect that makes the E-2D worlds apart from the E-2C it is a hub for the Cooperative Engagement capability (CEC). CEC is a real-time sensor netting system that enables high quality situational awareness and integrated fire control capability. It is designed to radically enhance the anti-air warfare (AAW) capability of U.S. Navy ships, U.S. Navy aircraft and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Composite Tracking Network (CTN) units by the netting of geographically dispersed sensors to provide a single integrated air picture, thus enabling Integrated Fire Control to destroy increasingly capable threat cruise missiles and aircraft. That is to say each CEC equipped unit uses identical sensor data processing algorithms resulting in each unit having the same display of air tracks. CEC gives an individual ship the added capability to launch anti-air weapons at threat aircraft or missiles within its engagement envelope based on remote sensor data provided by the CEC sensor network. The CEC system makes it possible for multiple surface ships, aircraft and USMC land units to form an air defense network by sharing radar target measurements in real-time. This capability provides weapons fire control quality data to be shared in a highly jam resistant system that enables long range missiles like the SM-6 to engage outside the range to the launching ship's sensors. It also ensures that missile capable is judiciously tasked to ensure no units engage the same target. This networked air defense system may look superficially not much different from what was proceeded it but is in fact a formidable level improvement in fleet ant-air defense.

[@flyboy38a]

I really would love to have a go at flying the D model just to see how much has been improved since the group 0 C models. Just the new capabilities in the cockpit leaves me jealous. For most of the flight I was bored to tears just flying in circles while on station. Of course it did not help that we had a lot of command problems. Our CO was not what you would call mentally stable. I had to fly with him the most since I was the junior pilot and got to watch him rock back and forth mumbling "Standby for change of command". We were having a lot of maintenance issues since we were beating the hell out of our planes flying 24 hrs a day 7 days a week so he was freaking out thinking that this would get him removed from command. I later found out that he was know for not being able to deal well with very high pressure situations. He also had a habit of lashing out at people when something went wrong. A number of enlisted people were busted in rank or kicked out of the squadron during some maintenance mishaps. Not a fun time.

[@muchadoaboutnothing6196]

I saw a lecture on the 1st program manager of the Ford class carriers where stated that his biggest regret was insisting on an advanced radar on the Fords. He mentioned that with E2Ds and CEC they were essential billions in wasted capability that the Ford doesn’t need and will almost never fully use because of how much better the E2D is. He also recalled an E2D using its CEC to allow a fire of an SM6 over the horizon using the E2D to hit a target some 600 miles (iirc) away at White Sands. The Chinese PLAN has already stated they’re working on something similar and they’re known to have hacked the E2D program but Navy said no classified data was compromised. Given their track record it’s only a matter of time before they do if not already have.

[@bobcranston3414]

@@flyboy38a Steve, we chewed the same dirt around the same time (me VAW-122). Care to say who this gem of a CO you had? I also had a POS for a CO once - Will Dossel.

[@flyboy38a]

@@bobcranston3414 His name was Dudash. I think his first name began with a T for Terry or Terrance. It has been so long and I have been on so many meds from the VA that my memory has taken a big hit on some areas of my past that I can't be sure of his first name. I have no idea how he performed as the mini-boss at his next duty station, but other senior officers that I ran into and told them about my experiences in VAW=126 said he did not deal well with pressure even when he was a junior officer. I don't think I can ever forgive the man for taking the joy of flying away from me. You were on the Forest Fire, correct? Or were you before Desert Storm era?

[@ipmcphilippines1653]

I just came across your channel and subscribed. Great content and a lot of factual information. Well done sir.

[@petesheppard1709]

A COD being ravished by a UFO...

[@I_Stack_Metal]

It's 3:30 am I'm tired. KZbin: wanna check out E-2 Hawkeye. Me: you son of a bitch.

[@gweril816]

Nice Legacy barotrauma soundtrack in background youve got there.

[@xyzaero]

@Matsimus The E-2Ds are all new airframes and not upgrades. The Navy ordered 75 NEW E-2Ds. I might be mistaking, but I think that you said that the E-2Ds are upgraded airframes. Please correct me if I misunderstood you.

[@stewarthill5878]

Very cool and thanks for sharing this. 🇺🇸

[@IMAN7THRYLOS]

Just curious, why is there a swirl painted on the top of the rotating radar? It look as if it tries to hypnotize those who fly above.

[@prubenazul150]

That's the screw tops :) one of the squadrons who paint their domes

[@johno9507]

One unique fact about the Hawkeye is even though it has 4 vertical fins, it only has 3 rudders.

[@dvergar1]

"... has been the eye in the sky for more than the thirty years it has been in service." I know what you meant, but the way you phrased that is logically impossible. (Oh, and has anyone told you that you sound like Cap from The Grim Reapers on DCS?) Keep up the great content!

[@scottl9660]

Years ago I read an article about upgrading the E2 to a phased array system. Guess that one didn’t pan out?

[@tcniel]

I was working at Pt Mugu when the built the E2D training ctr right next to the E2C location, E2 world is developing right where it needs to be at a Navy test site first built to work on the new field of rockets and missiles....they have a (non) museum that is open to the public, I think you would be interested in it.

[@Chopstorm.]

My father served on one of these while he was on the America back in the 80s.

[@kylrean3891]

Good info, but you're a little off in one aspect. The airframes are not continually upgraded. I mean, they ARE to an extent, but a C does not become a D. All E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes are new production aircraft and are rolling off the line today, as were the E-2C 2Ks, and the original E-2Cs. I believe (but could be wrong) the E-2C Nav Upgrades were the only airframes to be upgraded and redesignated. E-2D's are now also being produced with air refueling capability as well so are no longer limited in range or flight time by gas. Great vid though!

[@Raist474]

Matsimus, if you're going down the electronic rabbit hole, go digging around for the RC-135's and the EC-130H's. Unlike the Navy, the Air Force doesn't advertise their beeps, squeaks, and buzzers very much. But they are in a HUGE demand on the regular.

[@MichalProzac]

Watching this makes me want to start Command Modern Operations and go hunt some Narco flights. (a.k.a. friendly non offensive comment for the algorythm)

[@paladin0654]

D models are new production NOT old airplanes.

[@b-man2961]

That would explain why the Americans wanted the Australians to get rid of the F111, they didn't like us flying over their decks without them knowing. A bit like the ATC in Top Gun's reaction.

[@scottygdaman]

Rode as a passenger on one years ago. Sat sideways on a carrier launch. Ug. Once. What was the big jet thing., viking ? Wasn't that also an E.W. / E.W.?

[@operator0]

The Viking was designed as an Anti Sub platform. That airframe was also used for EW and refueling.

[@tribiz6762]

Damn a couple minutes later and this coulda been posted 12am July 4 for the east coast.

[@memonk11]

If the Brits had Hawkeyes in the Falklands they might not have lost a ship.

[@GCJT1949]

They had airborne radar under their Camels. Geoff Who remembers that war.

[@recursivedreamer]

If we'd still had the full carriers this plane would have needed then there wouldn't have been a war.

[@TheNinjaDC]

And yet, the UK penny pinchers cut the Elizabeth's catapults, preventing the use of these aircraft, and restricting her to far less efficient hellocopter systems...

[@memonk11]

@@recursivedreamer That’s probably true.

[@memonk11]

@@GCJT1949 ?

[@jediinferno3372]

The eyes of the fleet

[@Repented008]

Mat, you always have the coolest intros. I'm looking for the video you did on the Hornet vs the MiG-29, did you take it down?

[@yunassaxer7119]

really great!

[@michaelwatts7784]

Since the CV-22 is replacing the C-2 Greyhound .How about a version to replace the Hawkeye , It could be used on Navy LHA ships with the F-35Bs

[@yunassaxer7119]

cool plan, great!

[@jamesortiz5388]

I like the rainbow patina on the windscreens.

[@shunyuanliang4397]

Why is there not a ASW variant of this aircraft being developed. I mean the airframe is suitable for carrier operations, its a mature design and logistic wise draws from existing stores. Longer range coupled with being faster the a Seahawk with around twice the payload, endurance & on-station time. Remove the radar dome, Add a MAD sensor, sonar stations, buoy dispensers, mk 46/mk 54 air dropped torpedo racks and it should work. Allows the Carrier Battle Group to extend its ASW bubble, especially with advances in torpedo effective ranges , passive sonar, TMA computations and sub silencing technologies. What do you guys think?

[@sammoore9689]

Shunyuan Liang they did that. S3

[@xyzaero]

Great video. Any info on that "fat nose" CRJ-700 from Northrop Grumman (N804X) in the background in the beginning of the video.

[@danieldunlap4077]

Don't underestimate the amount of high pressure exhaust it puts out. I watched my flight deck Chief get blown down by one of these.

[@citizenbobx]

It sounds like if anything's wrong with those, the whole fleet may as well turn about and go home.

[@andrewtaylor940]

The earliest ancestor of the Hawkeye probably goes back to WW2 and a scheme cooked up for CV(N)-6 USS Enterprise in her newly established and experimental “Night Operations” role. They would send up a radar equipped TBF Avenger teamed with a pair of F6F Hellcats at night to defend against Japanese night time bombers and Kamikaze’s. The Avenger would spot the incoming plane or planes and direct the Hellcats to intercept. It was crude and dangerous but effective. Also while mainly tasked for surface search the radar equipped PBM Mariner did a lot in mapping out what would become the Hawkeye’s functional role.

[@ItsJakeStuff]

33 years since pearl harbour? When was this video made..1977?

[@alphadingabisi174]

Am in Norfolk so I these everyday. Yesterday this one was flying extremely low they are really loud

[@redbision6707]

VAW- 116 The Sun Kings sailed with the Sun Kings with USS Ranger CV-61 and CVW - 2 89/90

[@briantaylor9285]

AWACS need their own movie.

[@ExUSSailor]

You should do an episode about the 1963 experiments where the Navy landed, (and launched) a USMC C-130 on the USS Forrestal.

[@edwardweeden8837]

How about the Navy trial landings of a U-2 on the kitty Hawk in 1963/64…and their actual use of a U-2 off Uss Ranger to do some spying missions in May, 1964?

[@duaneronan8199]

Kudos for mentioning the 8 blade props. FYI, these props are superior to the 6 blade props on the C130J. Why doesn't the Herc use the 8 blade? Political, I suspect.

[@christopherbrodhagen8646]

First time I saw one I said to myself, hmmm not as big as I thought.

[@dappyfull]

For real though, how do you get these videos 🤔

[@afcgeo882]

It’s likely the next naval AEW platform will be unmanned, acting as a sensor and relay system for battle managers sitting in ships’ own CICs, networked into flights of F-35s.

[@UncleFester84]

I will never understand why they didnt use the same airframe to make an ASW version as well like they did with its predecessor. You'd have a single platform to do AEW, ASW e COD, this last one could possibly even be fitted with extra fuel tanks and a refuelling probe to refuel other aircrafts in flight.

[@edwardweeden8837]

My guess in answer to your question above comes down to ‘weight’. Shooting and trapping.

[@danrykowski3133]

I'd love to hear you take about the f 35 sometime. I think it's an excellent aircraft despite being a costly project. Would be cool to hear your thoughts

[@SteveMHN]

I knew Matsimus would have huge respect for it. lmao

[@deltared7455]

Yea here trivia for you there was a Soviet copy of E-2 named YAK-44 but YAK-44 I think it is just a display piece for the Soviet Navy aircraft carriers.

[@magecraft2]

We (the Brits) are going for another helicopter version which was kind of forced on us due to no catapults or arrestor gear. Merlin is a good airframe and system should be good, if we get it in time (which seems unlikely) it should serve OK but likely to have another shortfall in capacity with the new CV's until it arrives.

[@RedXlV]

I don't understand why the Royal Navy doesn't field a tilt-rotor AEW aircraft. That would allow a bigger radar to be carried at higher altitude, while still not needing any catapult and arrestor gear.

[@TT-hd3zi]

RedXlV money, that’s why.

[@landon_8264]

Plane go vroom

[@ember_shep8181]

Hey Matsimus, do you have any tips on joining the Canadian Military? I'm in the US and, given Mr. Cheeto Puff, am looking at immigrating to Canada. I plan on getting permanent residency through college, and joining the CAF on a residency waiver. I hope to go CANSOFCOM and maybe look into JTF2. Do you have any videos on this, or some tips when talking to recruiters or joining?

[@mrrolandlawrence]

8:42 rolls reece? an engine supplier im not familiar with :O The S3 viking was retired too soon.

[@h21lad13]

wait hold on exactly what does the hawkeye purpose is it a command aircraft or a communication linked base aircraft

[@flyboy38a]

We did whatever was necessary. We would control intercepts of our aircraft to the enemy's aircraft. We would also insure critical messages were relayed. We would also act at on scene commander when involved in search and rescue. I don't know what other functions have been added to the aircraft since the early 1990s so I don't know what all it can do now.

[@h21lad13]

well isn't that easy to shot down one of those wait hold has one of those ever been shot down been recorded so far if not my god the legends are true

[@sammoore9689]

Both

[@flyboy38a]

@@h21lad13 We have never lost one to enemy action. Unfortunately several have been lost to accidents. When I was in my squadron we lost one due to hydraulic fire. The plane had my name on the side of it. To this day I don't know if I would have been on that flight if I had deployed with my squadron instead of being left behind for surgery. Both of the pilots were my roommates aboard the ship. At the end of the next full deployment which was about 8 months later, the replacement carrier that took over for us in the Adriatic Sea lost one of their E-2Cs that very first night. That accident was caused by spatial disorientation. All of the pilots that night reported bad cases of vertigo. If we ever again get in to a shooting war with near peer adversaries I don't know how well the plane will fare. It is a MAJOR HIGH PRIORITY TARGET and will have the enemy gunning for it. I know during war games we do keep losing them. It is all too easy for an enemy to slip past the eyes of the radar operators in the back of the plane. That was how we got shot down during a war game. Was not happy with the idiots in the back. Once someone gets near us there is nothing we can do to escape being shot down unless the radar guys reassign a fighter patrol to intercept them. But we were normally alone when we were on station. I guess when you are young it is always the other guy who will get shot down or have something go wrong. Otherwise I don't think we could have easily gotten in to the planes as we did considering just how dangerous it is.

[@walterrichmond6251]

I was one of the “idiots in the back” (VAW 124) Not sure of the specific incident you are referring to but from my experience it sure seems unusual that something would get past the three guys (yes, in 1975 it was all guys) in back. No hard feelings.

[@CenterpointConnect]

So what is the significance of the yellow vests wagging their hands around the E-2 after landing? Im assuming some type of awareness signal or something?

[@alexeypose4150]

Yellow vests are in charge of aircraft movement and spotting. The waving is them guiding the plane into its deck spot

[@chrisspencer6502]

I think next to the Tomcat this has to be one of the mode recognisa navy aircraft. Love the scene from red October were Alec Baldwin arrives on one of these.

[@flyboy38a]

Too bad the actual insides do not even remotely resemble what Hollywood showed on the big screen.

[@impacttrauma8696]

That was a C-2, not an E-2.

[@p7outdoors297]

Will you talk about the F/A-18?

[@aaronseet2738]

Surprised both props rotate counter-clockwise. Thought one should be reversed to counter torque.

[@prubenazul150]

It's for spares. No need to differentiate between right and left