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  2. Boeing E-3 Sentry - Wikipedia

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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 Warning and Control System). Derived from the Boeing 707 airliner, it provides all-weather surveillance, command, control, and communications, and is used by the United States Air Force , NATO ...

  3. List of United States electronic warfare aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Boeing E-3 Sentry: Airborne early warning and control: Boeing Defense, Space & Security: Developed from the Boeing 707-320. [15] EC-137D: 9 February 1972 E-3: 25 May 1976 [16] 1977 [17] 68 Boeing E-4: Airborne early warning and control: Boeing: Developed from the Boeing 747-200: 1973 1974 4 Windecker YE-5: Experimental stealth aircraft ...

  4. File:513th Air Control Group - Boeing E-3A Sentry 82-0007.jpg

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    English: The first E-3 Sentry, or Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft to receive the block 40/45 upgrade sits Nov. 18, 2010, outside the programmed depot maintenance hangar at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., awaiting pre-checks prior to PDM and the installation of the upgrade. (Courtesy photo)

  5. List of airborne early warning aircraft - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of airborne early warning aircraft. An AEW aircraft is an airborne radar system generally used to detect incoming aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles, and other projectiles and provide guidance to fighter and attack aircraft strikes. NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS AEW aircraft

  6. 970th Airborne Air Control Squadron - Wikipedia

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    It operates the Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft conducting airborne command and control missions. The first predecessor of the squadron was the 29th Bombardment Squadron, which was activated in Puerto Rico in April 1941.

  7. US–Saudi Arabia AWACS Sale - Wikipedia

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    The E-3 is a modified Boeing 707 commercial jetliner characterized by the strikingly large thirty-foot rotating antenna mounted on its roof. This antenna can detect and track other aircraft within an area of 175,000 square miles (450,000 km 2 ), flying at any altitude or over any terrain, allowing the AWACS to detect aircraft that remain hidden ...

  8. 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron - Wikipedia

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    39th Bombardment Group B-29s bombing Japan. The squadron was activated again the same day as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombardment squadron. When training was completed moved to North Field Guam in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific Area in January 1945 and assigned to XXI Bomber Command, Twentieth Air Force.