As mighty as the E-3 AWACS once was, it has started to show its age. The aircraft are decades old, parts for its archaic Boeing 707 airframe are getting harder to come by, and worst of all, its ...

The E-3’s Long Goodbye: A longtime workhorse for the AWACS 552nd is slowly phased out by: Galen Culver/KFOR Posted: Sep 15, 2023 / 05:45 PM CDT Updated: Sep 17, 2023 / 11:23 AM CDT ...

NATO relies on just 14 AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft, which serve as the most important tool for surveillance and air control across its member countries. These aircraft ...

It's called an E-3 Sentry AWACS.The 4-engine jet is a converted Boeing 707 jetliner.  Thursday, June 4th 2015, 2:22 pm By: Richard Clark ...

In April of 2022, the Air Force announced the successor to AWACS, an evolved version of the Wedgetail radar plane that Boeing built for Australia’s military. Wedgetail is based on a militarized ...

NATO’s three-week deployment of its E-3 Sentry AWACS (Airborne Warning Control System) aircraft to Norway’s Rygge air base, in the southern part of the country, concluded last week.

The Air Force plans to award a contract to Boeing in fiscal 2023 for the Wedgetail, which was developed by Australia for its air force. The service’s proposed 2023 budget calls for retiring 15 E ...