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

[AllanStern at aol.com]

I am familiar with the P-8 AGS.  Friends of mine at Northrop Grumman  think 
it is a Boeing pipedream, a marketing ploy.
 
Al Stern  Satellite Beach FL
 
 

mikets28 at earthlink.net writes:

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 ----- 
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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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