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India has rejected a proposal to acquire six ship-based Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye 2000s and has begun evaluating potential shore-based airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) solutions.
Industry sources say the Indian navy has ruled out buying the Hawkeye for embarked operations as it would have to make major compromises on the equipment that it could fit on the aircraft, but say the type is still being considered for operation from land bases.
The service received a detailed technical briefing on the Hawkeye 2000 from the US Navy last month and Northrop remains confident of securing an order, depite facing new competition. The USN says Washington first provided New Delhi with pricing and availability data on six Hawkeye 2000s in 2004, and that, while this has since expired, the governments
