{"id":159655,"date":"2024-12-19T23:51:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-awards-3-5-billion-contract-northrop-grumman-e-130j-tacamo\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T13:51:48","slug":"us-navy-awards-3-5-billion-contract-to-northrop-grumman-for-e-130j-tacamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=159655","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Awards $3.5 Billion Contract To Northrop Grumman For E-130J TACAMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/Press-Office\/Press-Releases\/display-pressreleases\/Article\/4011344\/navy-awards-3459276000-contract-to-northrop-grumman-systems-corporation-to-deve\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >announced<\/a> today that it has awarded defense contractor,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258182\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/northrop-grumman\/\"  >Northrop Grumman<\/a><\/span>, the contract to replace the aging E-6B Mercury with the E-130J. The contract is worth $3.5 billion. The new aircraft will be built from         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2036427\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/countries-operate-lockheed-c-130j-super-hercules-military\/\" >Lockheed Martin&#8217;s popular C-130J Super Hercules tactical airlifter<\/a><\/span> (specifically the lengthened C-130J-30 variant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy has awarded Northrop the contract to start building the replacement for the E-6 Mercury &#8220;doomsday&#8221; aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,412,915,423,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-military","category-northrop-grumman","category-united-states","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159656,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159655\/revisions\/159656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}