Royal Navy Merlin helicopter Crowsnest AEW replacement

[McColm]

By 2030 the Royal Navy would have retired the Merlin Mk2 AEWs Crowsnest radars and returned the helicopters back to the ASW roles. The new Vixen drones will be carrying out the AEW missions.
Ideally the Grumman-Northorp E-2D Hawkeye which should have been operational in the RN service or  the Boeing EV-22 Osprey. The whiffing world throws up lots of alternatives which have been covered before. I have built the Rotodyne AEW, Chinook and Sea Knight AEWs.