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The E-3 Sentry's airframe is a modified Boeing 707-320B Advanced model. Modifications include a rotating radar dome , uprated hydraulics from 241 to 345 bar (3500–5000 psi) to drive the rotodome, [21] single-point ground refueling, air refueling, and a bail-out tunnel or chute. A second bail-out chute was deleted to cut mounting costs.
A Royal Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry over North Yorkshire. An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar early warning system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles and other incoming projectiles at long ranges, as well as performing command and control of the battlespace in aerial engagements by informing and directing friendly fighter and attack ...
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US Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS. Mexican Air Force Embraer EMB-145. Indian Air Force Beriev A-50 EL/W-2090 AEW&C Saab 2000 Erieye AEW&C built for the Pakistan Air Force. Boeing E-767 of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force.
The United States Air Force began using the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft in 1977 following ten years of prototype design, development, and testing. [3] The U.S. currently has a fleet of 32 E-3s, the largest in the world. NATO possesses 14, the United Kingdom has seven, Saudi Arabia has five, and France has four. [4] The E-3 ...
The teams supervised the design, development, testing, production, and deployment of command and control systems. Two of ESC's most well-known developments were the Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), developed in the 1970s, and the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), developed in the 1980s.
E-3 Sentry – Boeing; E-4 – Boeing; E-5 Eagle – Windecker; E-6 Mercury – Boeing; E-7 – designation proposed for EC-18B but not approved; E-8 Joint STARS – Northrop Grumman; E-9 Widget – de Havilland Canada; E-10 MC2A – Boeing/Northrop Grumman; E-11 – Bombardier/Northrop Grumman
It operates the E-3 Sentry aircraft conducting airborne command and control missions. The first predecessor of the squadron was activated in the buildup for World War II as the 60th Bombardment Squadron. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, it flew antisubmarine patrols off the north Pacific coast.