Northrop Grumman
makes advanced weapons systems and technologies.
Among their projects are the
Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System
(Joint STARS -- a powerful airborne surveillance and
target system), the U.S. Navy's E-2C Hawkeye,
combat radars for the F-16 fighter
and F-22 aircraft, the Longbow Fire Control Radar and AGM-114L
Hellfire missile for the Apache helicopter,
radar for the Air Force's Airborne Warning and
Control System (AWACS),
the Navy's EA-6B Prowler,
the Army's BAT (an acoustically self-guided antiarmor submunition; space-based sensor systems; tactical military radars; air defense systems, and airborne electronic countermeasures, which protect pilots and aircraft by disrupting enemy radar and hostile weapons systems.)
Northrop Grumman is also the
prime contractor for the U.S. Air Force's B-2 stealth bomber (a long-range, heavy
bomber with low-observable characteristics and
all-altitude capability to penetrate the most
sophisticated air defenses. (pictured above)
