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BAE Partners With Northrop Grumman To Offer USAF Trainer

BAE Systems named Northrop Grumman its manufacturing partner to offer the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer System (AJTS) for the

September 26, 2011

BAE Systems named Northrop Grumman its manufacturing partner to offer the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer System (AJTS) for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X jet trainer requirement. Northrop Grumman built the T-38C Talon jets that the T-X will replace. Announcing the “exclusive strategic partnership” September 19 at the Air Force Association conference in National Harbor, Md., executives from the two companies said they are evaluating sites for a U.S. production facility.

Prime contractor BAE will offer an aircraft and training system based on the Hawk TMk2 flown by the UK Royal Air Force as a lead-in trainer for the Eurofighter Typhoon and eventually the F-35 Lightning II. The company has completed delivery of 28 aircraft ordered under a $710 million (£450 million) contract awarded in 2006. There is a Hawk line in India, building aircraft with assemblies from the UK, and other customers are still in prospect, according to Bob Wood, BAE’s T-X campaign executive.

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