With all the money the Navy is blowing on F-18’s and F-35’s and LCS’s these days-they could buy the whole E-2 fleet a couple of times over:
The E-2D Hawkeye is over budget, but the Navy needs it anyway, defense officials told Congress this month.
Since 2003, the E-2D program’s unit cost grew from $163 million to $204 million, a Navy spokesman said.
I could buy more than few E-2’s for what the Navy is going to waste backfitting F-18C’s with a radar it could get by without.
Funny thing though- I never hear any fighter pilots whining about the "hummer gap". Why is that?
