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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 .
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 ...
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]
No. 42 Squadron, also known as No. 42 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron or No. 42 (TB) Squadron, is a squadron of the Royal Air Force.It reformed at RAF Lossiemouth on 21 September 2023 as the Operational Conversion Unit for both the Boeing Poseidon MRA1 and Boeing Wedgetail AEW1.
Boeing E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft No. 2 Squadron (RAAF Base Williamtown) 6 [3] Australia Boeing EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare aircraft No. 6 Squadron (RAAF Base Amberley) 12 [4] United States MC-55A Peregrine Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare (ISREW) aircraft
Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, the designation assigned by the Royal Australian Air Force to the Boeing 737 AEW&C (airborne early warning and control) aircraft. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Boeing E-7 .
Its dual delivery systems—probe-and-drogue in the wings and boom under the tail—are designed to refuel the RAAF's Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II and Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet multi-role fighters, Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft, Boeing E-7 Wedgetail early warning aircraft, Boeing C-17 Globemaster III heavy airlifters ...