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On Guard

With the ex US Coast Guard Lockheed EC130V/NC-130H AEW&C test-bed in the foreground, US Air Force Northrop B-2A Spirit

82-1069 makes a 'down and dirty' fly-by during the 1996 Edwards AFB 'Open House'.

 

Due to budget cuts, that ex 'Hawkeye' AEW APS-125 radar dish modification on the C-130H Hercules, never made it in to production as the USCG terminated the program but here the USAF were evaluating the system which eventually passed onto the US Navy at Patuxent River for the Grumman Hawkeye 2000 program evaluation.

 

Read more about it here:

www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/ec-130v.htm

 

Scanned 35mm Transparency

 

 

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Uploaded on February 3, 2016
Taken on October 19, 1996