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The Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) is an active electronically scanned array surveillance radar system for the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft. The radar is produced by Northrop Grumman.
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 .
No. 42 Wing is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) wing responsible for supporting the service's Boeing E-7A Wedgetail aircraft. It was first formed in February 1943, and commanded RAAF radar stations in north Queensland and the south coast of Dutch New Guinea until being disbanded in October 1944.
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.
When deployed, the E-3 monitors an assigned area of the battlefield and provides information for commanders of air operations to gain and maintain control of the battle; while as an air defense asset, E-3s can detect, identify, and track airborne enemy forces far from the boundaries of the U.S. or NATO countries and can direct interceptor ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Wedgetail may refer to: Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, an ...
AN/TPN-12 GCA/PAR. A traditional PAR flight inspection procedure is performed without a navigation signal available to compare directly to a truth reference. A traditional PAR is flight inspected by comparing written notes between two observers, one taking notes at a truth reference system such as a theodolite and the other observer taking notes while observing the radar console; see ICAO ...
Anti-submarine development of the Bristol 173 for RAF (and later Royal Canadian Air Force). Bristol Type 191 [100] H.150D&P OR.325 Twin-rotor transport helicopter for RAF Development of the Bristol 191 for the Royal Air Force: Bristol Type 192 as the Westland Belvedere HC.1 [101] C.151 Communications aircraft de Havilland Heron C.2 and C.3 [102 ...