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The Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A was planned as a multi-role military aircraft to replace the Boeing 707-based E-3 Sentry and E-8 Joint STARS, the Boeing 747-based E-4B, and the RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft in US military service. The E-10 was based on the Boeing 767-400ER commercial airplane.
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 ...
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.
Presented by SAAB to the French Air Force as a replacement for its existing Boeing E-3 Sentry fleet. In January 2024 Sweden and France signed a renewed strategic innovation partnership, which among other things emphasized the willingness of both countries to increase cooperation in the field of air surveillance. [41] [42] Greece
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]
An E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. One of 4 E-4B Nightwatch airborne command posts. ... The MH-139A Grey Wolf replacement for the Bell UH-1N. A CV-22 Osprey over RIAT in 2015.
An Airbus/Saab team proposed an A330-based Airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) ("AWACS") variant with Saab's Erieye radar to the UK's Ministry of Defence in 2018 for the replacement of its Boeing E-3 Sentry fleet. [7] The boom operators sit at a video console using the Boom Enhanced Vision System.
Navy E-6B Mercury at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Like the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, the E-6 is adapted from Boeing's 707-320 airliner. Rolled out at Boeing's Renton Factory in December 1986, [2] the first E-6 made its maiden flight in February 1987, when it was flown to nearby Boeing Field in south Seattle for fitting of mission avionics.