combat aircraft

J-STARS AND ABMS LATEST

E-8 REPLACEMENT PLANS EVOLVE

Testing of the new advanced arresting gear

(AAG) has progressed to the E-2 Hawkeye, as

seen here, and C-2A Greyhound. NAVAIR

AAG ENTERS NEXT ROUND OF TESTING

THE US NAVAL Air Warfare Center Aircraft

Division (NAWCAD) entered the next phase of

testing of the advanced arresting gear (AAG)

system on its runway arrested landing site

(RALS) at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst,

New Jersey, on May 24. The testing, which will

be completed this summer, will clear the C-2A

Greyhound carrier on-board delivery aircraft

and E-2C/D Hawkeye airborne early warning

aircraft to operate with the system, which is

installed on the new aircraft carrier USS Gerald

R. Ford (CVN 78).

This phase of AAG testing follows 310

arrestments conducted using dead loads and

weighted sleds that were representative of

these aircraft. Testing will include roll-ins and

fly-ins, plus numerous test points that will

validate the AAG’s ability to arrest the aircraft

safely. At the conclusion of the land-based

testing the C-2A, E-2C and E-2D will be cleared

to commence testing aboard the aircraft carrier.

[NEWS] UNITED STATES

08 August 2018 //^ http://www.combataircraft.net

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