The Boeing E-3 Sentry is an American airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft developed by Boeing. E-3s are commonly known as AWACS (Airborne...
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The Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident was the September 22, 1995 crash of a United States Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft with...
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the 707-based Boeing E-3 Sentry. The E-7 was designed for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) under "Project Wedgetail" and designated E-7A Wedgetail...
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requirements. It is essentially the Boeing E-3 Sentry's surveillance radar and air control system installed on a Boeing 767-200. On September 6, 1976, Soviet...
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Grumman E-10 MC2A was planned as a multi-role military aircraft to replace the Boeing 707-based E-3 Sentry and E-8 Joint STARS, the Boeing 747-based E-4B,...
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as opposed to a modification of an existing airframe, such as the Boeing E-3 Sentry. Variants of the Hawkeye have been in continuous production since...
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SAM 27000 Boeing 707 Boeing C-135 Stratolifter Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Boeing CC-137 Boeing E-3 Sentry Boeing E-6 Mercury Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint...
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Skyfox Boeing–Saab T-7 Red Hawk Boeing 737 AEW&C (E-7 Wedgetail) Boeing Model 42 Boeing YAL-1 Airborne Laser Boeing E-3 Sentry (an Airborne Early Warning and...
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British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3 (redirect from British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3)
purchasing new build Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft to fulfil the AEW requirement. In the mid 1960s, following the development of the Grumman E-2 Hawkeye carrier-borne...
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for the E-8 STARS program and two ex-CF converted as E-8 and E-8C Boeing E-3 Sentry – Airborne early warning and control aircraft based on Boeing 707 airframe...
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Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the main operating base of the NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry Component, one of two operational elements of the NATO Airborne Early...
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Avro Shackleton (redirect from Avro Shackleton MR.3)
in this support capacity until 1991, when it was replaced by the Boeing E-3 Sentry AEW aircraft. These were the last examples of the type remaining in...
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that will only function remote from the fuselage, for example the Boeing E-3 Sentry radar is housed in a nacelle called a radome. Edward Turner used the...
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1991, the E-6 was the final new derivative of the Boeing 707 to be built. Like the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, the E-6 is adapted...
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aircraft performance. On some military airplanes (Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, Boeing E-3 Sentry, McDonnell Douglas KC-10) the FE sits behind the co-pilot in the cockpit...
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derivatives include the E-3 Sentry airborne reconnaissance aircraft and the C-137 Stratoliner VIP transport. In total, 865 Boeing 707s were produced and...
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operated the Boeing E-3D Sentry AEW1 (AWACS) from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire. As of 2020, the RAF AWACS fleet was made up of three Sentry AEW1s, down...
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Hawker Siddeley Nimrod (redirect from Hawker Siddeley Nimrod AEW.3)
was cancelled in 1986 in favour of an off-the-shelf solution in the Boeing E-3 Sentry. All Nimrod variants had been retired by mid-2011. On 4 June 1964...
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scrapping. E-767 – the Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWACS) platform for the Japan Self-Defense Forces; it is essentially the Boeing E-3 Sentry mission...
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Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star (redirect from Lockheed WV-3 Warning Star)
and WV-3. The USAF Warning Stars served during the Vietnam War both as electronic sensor monitors and as a forerunner to the Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS....
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large aircraft. 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash 1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident List of airshow accidents and incidents "Pilot error blamed...
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replacement of its current fleet of E-3 Sentry aircraft. In November 2023, NATO decided to procure the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail. "Saab launches GlobalEye...
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(AEW&C), a general term for the type of aircraft used in this role Boeing E-3 Sentry, the aircraft developed under the United States Air Force's "Airborne...
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Grumman) radar. It is mounted on either the E-3 Sentry aircraft (Boeing 707) or more recently the Boeing E-767 (Boeing 767), the latter only being used by the...
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2000D 2000-5F 65 26 AWACS Boeing E-3 Sentry United States AEW&C E-3F 4 Reconnaissance Dassault Falcon 8X France SIGINT / ELINT 0 3 on order Beechcraft Super...
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3 August 2010. Retrieved 26 August 2024. "E-3 Sentry (AWACS)". Tinker Air Force Base. Retrieved 13 April 2024. Eden et al 2004, p. 94. "E-3 Sentry (AWACS)"...
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signal strength threshold of a smaller frequency range. AWACS Boeing E-3 Sentry Boeing E-4 Electronic warfare Electronic countermeasure Lockheed Orion...
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a subordinate unit of the 552d Operations Group and it flies the Boeing E-3 Sentry radar surveillance aircraft. The squadron currently falls under the...
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radomes. On airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft (e.g. the American E-3 Sentry), a discus-shaped rotating radome, often called a "rotodome"...
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jam Airborne Early Warning and Control (AWACS) aircraft such as the Boeing E-3 Sentry at ranges of up to 250 kilometres (160 mi). The Krasukha-2 can also...
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