"Coupled with the aircraft's weapon systems, the Scorpion helmet-mounted sight and display enhances tactical situational awareness and enables crews to respond more quickly and with greater agility to a whole range of threats," according to a press release announcing the contract for Thales. The cockpit and helmet displays are being added as upgrades to the current in-service fleet of Dassault Aviation Rafale aircraft being operated by the French Air and Space Force and the French Navy. In July 2021, Thales announced a new contract award from the French defense procurement agency (DGA) to provide 350 Scorpion helmet-mounted sight and display systems and 400 digital multi-function displays. Thales has been awarded the contract to supply Scorpion® helmet-mounted sight and display systems and digital multi-function displays for all the Dassault Aviation Rafale aircraft in service with the French Air and Space Force and the French Navy.
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French Air Force, Navy to Upgrade Rafale Jets Next, in FY ‘23 DSSC 4 will be introduced, which will add improvements to data fusion, GPS and radar. After that is complete, PMA-231 will start rolling out DSSC 3.1 to introduce the Joint Tactical Radio System and Link 16 so the aircraft can meet Pentagon-mandated cybersecurity standards. The service is currently wrapping up fielding DSSC 3, with four more E-2Ds left to convert from DSSC 2. That means new DSSC builds will come out every two years.
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The office is planning to upgrade the E-2D via a set of “delta system software configurations,” or DSSC builds, which-given the current software and systems on the aircraft-takes about four years from initiating an idea to deployment on the aircraft, Arrobio said. It has a warfighter requirement of 86 and is currently funded for 78 that are expected to be fielded by 2025. The Navy currently has 48 E-2Ds with three more set to deliver this calendar year. Pete Arrobio, manager of the E-2/C-2 Airborne Command and Control Systems Program Office (PMA-231), said during a presentation held at the Navy League’s annual Sea Air Space expo in August 2021. So that gives us a little bit of an extension but…linking capacity back to readiness-how are we going to sustain this platform through the 2040s?” Capt. aircraft E-2Ds will stop rolling off the line in FY ’26 we’re starting to shut down in ’23, the last U.S. Navy is working on plans to sustain the Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft into the 2040s via several upgrades as production is set to sunset within five years.
CVN-78 is conducting aircraft compatibility testing to continued testing the EMALS and AAG launch and recovery systems. Ford (CVN-78)., marking the first time an E-2D had landed aboard the Ford. An E-2D Advanced Hawkeye assigned to Air Test andĮvaluation Squadron 20 lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R.
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