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The RAF’s new fleet of surveillance aircraft will be based at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, the UK Government has said. The E-7 Wedgetail planes are due to arrive in 2023, replacing the existing E ...
The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, also marketed as the Boeing 737 AEW&C, is a twin-engine airborne early warning and control aircraft based on the Boeing 737 Next Generation design. It has a fixed, active electronically scanned array radar antenna instead of a rotating one as with the 707-based Boeing E-3 Sentry .
An RAF Wedgetail. In 2018, the RAF announced plans to upgrade its airborne early warning facility. Initially this was planned as an upgrade of the E-3D Sentry fleet, which would mirror the Sentry Block 40/45 upgrade undertaken by the USAF, and subsequently fitted to the Sentry fleet of the Armée de l'Air in France.
An E-7 Wedgetail in October 2024, which is soon to be operated by No.8 Squadron. It was announced in July 2019 that from the mid-2020s the squadron will be the first to operate the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, the planned replacement for the RAF's E-3D Sentry fleet. [39]
In December 2020, the RAF announced that its new fleet of Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW1 aircraft were to be based at Lossiemouth. The Airborne early warning and control aircraft will replace the E-3D Sentry AEW1 fleet which was retired in 2021 and was operated by No. 8 Squadron at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.
Intelligence gathered by RAF spy planes flying over Gaza could be used as evidence against Israel in The Hague, it is understood.. Surveillance aircraft have carried out almost daily missions over ...
RAF bases, airports and fire stations are amongst the biggest hotspots of “forever chemical” pollution, an Environment Agency report has revealed. Linked to serious health issues, these toxic ...
[14] [15] The Royal Air Force (RAF) chose to limit investment in its E-3D fleet in the early 2000s, diverting Sentry upgrade funds to a replacement program. [16] On 22 March 2019, the UK Defence Secretary announced a $1.98 billion (~$2.33 billion in 2023) contract to purchase five Boeing E-7 Wedgetails . [ 17 ]