[MilCom] [MilRadioComms] Question - Boeing 767 used for JSTARSreplacement

[Michael Comer]

Boeing appears to be making another attempt at a JSTARS replacement based on
a P-8 airframe, the P-8 AGS:
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/p8ags/index.html

Mike Comer
Titusville, FL
"master arm on, green 'em up"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <AllanStern at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [MilCom] [MilRadioComms] Question - Boeing 767 used for 
JSTARSreplacement


> Many thanks to the several folks who responded.
> The plane was the E-10.
>
> The E-10 finally disappeared at the end  of FY2007 as budget pressures and
> competing priorities pushed it completely out  of the budget. The USAF
> maintained funding for the MP-RTIP radar and may  eventually put the radar 
> on the
> E-8, or on a new aircraft, possibly the same  airframe as the next aerial
> tanker.  The smaller version of the MP-RTIP  AESA radar designed to be 
> flown
> on the RQ-4B Global Hawk is being flight tested  on the Scaled Composites
> Proteus aircraft. Boeing had kept the E-10 prototype  (767-400ER) at Paine
> Field
> in Everett, Washington until the prototype was  sold to Bahrain in January
> 2009 for conversion into a VIP transport.
>
> _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_E-10_MC2A_
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_E-10_MC2A)
>
>
> Al Stern  Satellite Beach FL
>
>
>
> allanstern at aol.com writes:
>
> There was a program at Northrop Grumman which was to replace the JSTARS
> E-8 with a new plane.  It was to be based on a Boeing 767.  The  program 
> was
> cancelled and the Boeing 767 that Northrop was using for  development is 
> now
> in Europe.
>
> I am trying to recall the designation of the plane and any information
> about its current ownership.
>
> AL  STERN Satellite Beach  FL
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