Ever since the 1970s, a mighty flying platform has been used by the American military as a warning and control system. It’s the E-3 Sentry, a machine that is quickly approaching retirement age. Made ...
Sometimes, the military comes up with some truly insane ideas — that work. What if you stuck an airport on a boat? Now, aircraft carriers rule the seas. Okay, what if you stuck a radar station on a ...
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European NATO countries scrap plan to buy Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AWACS
The United States withdrew from the AWACS replacement program in July, removing the strategic and financial base of the program, the Netherlands' MoD said.
One of the outstanding military innovations of the Cold War years was the E-3 Sentry radar plane, which could monitor airborne and maritime traffic over great distances from a modified Boeing BA 707 ...
NATO will update its aging airborne warning and control system (AWACS) fleet with the purchase of six Boeing E-7A Wedgetail aircraft, it announced Wednesday. [Courtesy: NATO] NATO announced the ...
BRUSSELS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - NATO will replace its ageing fleet of AWACS surveillance planes, in service since the Cold War in the 1980s, with a militarised version of the Boeing 737 commercial jet, ...
The E-3 Sentry was born into this world in the 1970s, at a time when tensions between the East and the West were at their highest (present times not included). Built as a military offshoot of the ...
Time was, the U.S. military needed a giant AWACS aircraft packed with people, sensors, and computers to handle sensing and data sharing. Northrop Grumman now says it has a way to do much of that far ...
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Friendly Fire Disaster: The AWACS Failure That Led US Fighters to Kill Their Own Allies
April 14, 1994. Over the mountains of Iraq's No-Fly Zone, the unthinkable began when American F-15 pilot Captain Eric Wickson picked up an unexpected radar signature. The contact was strange; they ...
The Air Force wants to hear more from defense contractors on how they would provide a prototype replacement for the E-3 Sentry, or AWACS, aircraft by 2028. (Tech. Sgt. Gregory Brook/Air Force) ...
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Japan Air Self-Defense Force AWACS will get upgrades following the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center award of $208 million to the Boeing Co. for installation and ...
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