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    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...
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  • Look up sentry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sentry or The Sentry may refer to: Sentry (Kree) Sentry (Curtis Elkins) Sentry (Robert Reynolds) Senator...
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    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 1960...
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    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. The...
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    Air Self-Defense Force's requirements. It is essentially the Boeing E-3 Sentry's surveillance radar and air control system installed on a Boeing 767-200...
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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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  • Sentry (Robert "Bob" Reynolds) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, with uncredited...
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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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    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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    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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    converted to freighter configurations. Military derivatives include the E-3 Sentry airborne reconnaissance aircraft and the C-137 Stratoliner VIP transport...
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    covering a 120-degree sector, unlike the rotating radome on the comparable E-3 Sentry serving the United States Air Force. The KJ-2000 is a second-generation...
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    bomber flies over the Pacific Ocean An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft One of 4 E-4B Nightwatch airborne command posts A new E-11 aircraft being rolled out in 2018...
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    such as the Fairey Gannet AEW.3 and Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star, and continues to be used by the RAF for its Sentry AEW1, while AEW&C (airborne early...
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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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    been scrapped included control by AEW&C aircraft such as the E-2 Hawkeye and E-3 Sentry. Originally proposed by VADM Joseph Metcalf, DCNO Surface Warfare...
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  • aircraft, such as the E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system. The E-3 Sentry is in the process of being replaced by the E-7A Wedgetail. The Mobility...
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    development KJ-2000 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Boeing E-3 Sentry (AWACS) EL/W-2090 "А-50". Уголок неба [Corner of the Sky] (in Russian)...
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    707 served as the basis for several specialized versions, such as the E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. The designation C-18 covers several later variants based...
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    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, the...
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    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 Control...
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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 from...
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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 term...
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    KJ-2000 DRDO AWACS Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era E-3 Sentry (Block G) "Russia's latest radar aircraft performs debut flight - designer"...
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    C-130A-H models, slightly higher than) the pilots. On the P-3 Orion, E-6B Mercury and E-3 Sentry the FE is responsible for starting and shutting down engines...
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    program. E-10 MC2A - the Northrop Grumman E-10 was to be a 767-400ER-based replacement for the USAF's 707-based E-3 Sentry AWACS, Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint...
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    (E-3), airborne command post (E-4B), range control (E-9A), and communications relay (E-11A, EQ-4B). E-3B, E-3C and E-3G Sentry E-4B "Nightwatch" E-9A...
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    operated the F-15C Eagle, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-22A Raptor, KC-10A Extender, E-3 Sentry (AWACS) U-2S Dragon Lady and EQ-4 and RQ-4 Global Hawk. The first USAF...
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    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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