Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A

The Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A was a planned multi-role military aircraft, a Multi-Sensor Command and Control Aircraft meant to replace the Boeing 707-based E-3 Sentry and E-8 Joint STARS, the Boeing 747-based E-4B and the RC-135 Rivet Joint in United States military service. It was based on the Boeing 767-400ER airliner. In 2003 a team of Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Raytheon won a pre-development contract worth 215 million dollars, and the capability was to grow in stages called spirals, from cruise missile defence and ground surveillance to an AWACS-style role and signals intelligence. The program was scaled back in 2006 to a single technology demonstrator and disappeared from the budget at the end of fiscal year 2007. The one prototype airframe was sold to Bahrain in January 2009 for conversion into a VIP transport.